Isolation

ISOLATION

  • Isolation means segregation of animals, which are known to be or suspected to be affected with a contagious disease from the apparently healthy ones. Preferably, such segregated animals should be housed in a separate isolation ward situated far away from the normal animal houses.
  • The isolation ward should never be at a higher level than that of the healthy shed. If a separate accommodation is not available the animals concerned should be placed at one end of normal animals’ buildings, as far away from healthy stock as practicable.
  • Attendants working on sick animals and equipment such as buckets, shovels etc. used for them should not be used for healthy stock. If this is not practicable, the sick animals should be attended to daily, after the healthy stock. After this, the equipment should be thoroughly disinfected before they are used on healthy stock next day; the attendant too should wash his hands and feet in antiseptic and discard the clothes in which he worked.
  • The isolated animals should be brought back into the herd only when the outbreak ends and they are fully recovered.
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