What is the policy of animal epidemic prevention?

Animal epidemic prevention should follow the principle of putting prevention first.

The policy of putting prevention first is the basic guiding ideology of taking planned immunization measures mainly to protect susceptible animals, supplemented by comprehensive epidemic prevention measures such as controlling the source of infection and cutting off the transmission route to minimize the occurrence of animal diseases.

1. The policy of putting prevention first is the basic policy of preventing animal diseases established by the state according to law. The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Animal Epidemic Prevention stipulates that the state shall implement the policy of giving priority to prevention of animal epidemics. Its legal significance lies in effectively establishing animal disease prevention and control systems, measures and regulations, promoting the stable development of aquaculture and protecting human health.

2. The policy of putting prevention first conforms to the objective law of the occurrence and development of animal diseases. Animal infectious diseases, like human infectious diseases, can be effectively prevented and controlled as long as measures are taken to eliminate the source of infection, cut off the route of transmission and protect healthy or susceptible animal groups.

3. Establishing the policy of putting prevention first conforms to the basic national conditions of China. This is based on the actual situation of animal breeding in China, the epidemic characteristics of animal diseases and the experience of many years of prevention and control work.

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Animal epidemic prevention refers to the prevention, control and extermination of animal diseases and the quarantine of animals and animal products.

Animal epidemic prevention is a systematic work to mobilize the whole society to strictly implement prevention, control, extermination and quarantine measures from the introduction, breeding, management, sales, transportation and slaughter of animals to the processing, management, storage, transportation and sales of animal products according to the scientific laws of the occurrence, development and extinction of animal diseases, so as to ensure the health of animals and the safety of their products.

(1) Prevention of animal epidemics. It mainly refers to a series of comprehensive measures such as immunization, deworming, medicated bath, disease monitoring, improvement of environmentally safe barns in animal breeding places, disinfection, biosafety control, and regional management of animal diseases to prevent the occurrence of animal diseases.

(2) Control of animal diseases. Including two aspects: first, when an animal epidemic occurs, measures such as electrical isolation, chemical barrier, personnel barrier, culling and disinfection are taken. Measures should be taken to prevent the spread of space electric field involving biological effects and prevent the spread of epidemic situation; The second is to take measures such as monitoring and elimination to gradually purify the existing animal diseases until they are eliminated.

(3) the extermination of animal epidemics. Generally speaking, it refers to the measures taken when a major animal epidemic occurs, that is, an animal epidemic that is seriously harmful to people and livestock and may cause significant economic losses requires urgent, severe and comprehensive compulsory measures such as "blockade, isolation, destruction, disinfection and harmless treatment" to quickly put out the epidemic. The principles of early, quick, strict and small should be adopted to put out animal epidemics. "Early" refers to the strict implementation of the epidemic reporting system, early detection and timely reporting of animal epidemics, so that the veterinary administrative department can grasp the dynamics of animal epidemics in time and take extermination measures; "Fast" means taking various measures quickly to prevent the spread of the epidemic; "Strict", that is, strictly implement various severe disposal measures in the epidemic area and put out the epidemic within a time limit; "Small" means keeping the animal epidemic in a minimum range and minimizing the losses caused by the animal epidemic.

(4) Quarantine of animals and animal products. It means that in order to prevent the spread of animal diseases, ensure aquaculture production and human health, and safeguard public health and safety, the statutory animal health supervision agency adopts statutory quarantine procedures and methods (formulated by the veterinary administrative department of the State Council), and according to the statutory quarantine objects, namely animal infectious diseases and parasitic diseases that need quarantine, and in accordance with the animal quarantine regulations formulated by the veterinary administrative department of the State Council, it adopts statutory treatment methods to inspect, characterize and deal with the sanitary conditions of animals and animal products, and issues them. The purpose of quarantine of animals and their products is to prevent infected animals and their products from entering the circulation field; The second is to prevent animal diseases from spreading through transportation, slaughter, processing, storage and trading, and the third is to ensure the quality, hygiene and safety of animal-derived products.

Adjustment policy: prevention first, combination of prevention and control, purification and elimination.

"Since the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention was revised and implemented on June 5438+ 10/in 2008, animal epidemic prevention in China has been continuously strengthened, which has played an important role in ensuring aquaculture production, animal-derived food, public health and ecological environment safety." Liu Zhenwei, vice chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Committee of the National People's Congress, said, however, due to the backward farming methods of most production and business entities in China, the weak grass-roots animal epidemic prevention system, frequent international trade activities in animals and animal products, and the complicated and severe situation facing animal epidemic prevention, it is necessary to revise the animal epidemic prevention law as soon as possible.

For a long time, China's animal epidemic prevention work has adhered to the principle of "prevention first" and controlled the occurrence of major animal diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease on a large scale. However, from the epidemic law of animal diseases, it is difficult to effectively curb the variation and invasion of animal pathogens by simple prevention. It is a scientific path and international practice to control, purify and eliminate the key diseases that endanger the safety of animal husbandry and public health in a planned way, promote the transformation of key diseases from immune clinical onset to immune clinical case-free, gradually eliminate pathogens in animals and the environment, reduce the epidemic rate of diseases and reduce the area contaminated by pathogens. To this end, the draft adjusted and improved the animal epidemic prevention policy, that is, the policy of "putting prevention first, combining prevention with control, and purifying and eliminating".

Cao Binghai, a professor at the College of Animal Science and Technology of China Agricultural University, said that with the rapid development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, the range of activities of living animals has expanded significantly, and it is difficult to stop the entry of epidemics simply by prevention. At this time, speeding up the revision of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law, emphasizing prevention first and combining prevention with control, is to meet the needs of social development, will promote the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry and contribute to public health and safety.

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Article 1 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Animal Epidemic Prevention

This Law is formulated with a view to strengthening the management of animal epidemic prevention activities, preventing, controlling and eradicating animal epidemics, promoting the development of aquaculture, protecting human health and ensuring public health and safety.

Article 5 The State adopts the policy of putting prevention first in animal epidemics.