Concept of Vaccination in Sheep & Goats
DR.ASHOK KUMAR VALUPADASU
Deputy Director ( V&AH) Telangana
- Sheep & Goats frequently suffer with infectious diseasesunder many predisposing reasons.
- Flockproductivity is decreased with diseases, thereby significant decrease in farm profits is noticed
- Diseases causes mortality also
- The best way to deal with infectious diseases is to preventthem from occurring
- Prevention is always better than cure
- Health care is one of the 4 farming components of Sheep/Goat farming
(Other three farming components areBreed, Nutrition & Management)
- Preventive Health care(PHC) is part of Health care. Use of specific, scientific and proactive measures to prevent future disease/Illness or Injury is known as PHC
- PHC means taking a medicine or care before the disease develops, which helps in prevention and control of disease. Cost of Preventive health care is nominal /minimum
- Vaccination is part of preventive Health care .Vaccinationmeans administration of a Vaccine. It is a practice of building immunity artificially against specific Infectious diseases by injecting Vaccines
- Vaccineis a biological agent. Itis an antigenic substance prepared from the causative agent ofthe disease like a microorganism or virus orproteinsor toxins from the organism.
- Vaccination help the immune system develop antibodies/protection from a particular disease.
- Vaccination provides active Immunityfor a specific period
- Immunityis the ability toresist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells
- Vaccination preventsfurther spreadof disease
- Vaccination is like insuring the flock
- Vaccination is a form of risk management
- Vaccinated flocks suffer lesswith infectious diseases than non-vaccinated
- Vaccines are inexpensive and easy to apply
- Better to apply all available Vaccines as per Epidemic History
- Vaccination is one area which looksconfusing for manynew entrepreneurs
( what, when& how). Many conflicts over prioritisation of Vaccinationis another issue. Because of which Vaccination is mostly neglected/unattended.
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Concept of Vaccination in Sheep & Goat
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