Talk:Foreign animal disease

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This looks like a good start. It also looks to be fairly broad- I'm looking forward to how you plan to tighten up your topic lists and what information you plan to present. If you don't already have it as a resource- Iowa State's center for food safety and public health is a plethora.

570kkl (talk) 16:24, 6 November 2017 (UTC)570kkl

greetings- you are off to a very good start, very good information and nicely tied together. Through scanning different foreign animal disease policies I have found a document that outlines the entire topic fairly well.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/2afa4f5f-e7df-479c-9058-55aecc60d145/PHVt-Reportable___Foreign_Animal_Diseases.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

This link should provide some additional information that you can place across all areas. Rebur (talk) 03:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Given the title is “Foreign Animal Disease”, it would be good to clarify if you feel TAD and Emerging Animal Disease can be used interchangeably with FAD. If not, it may be good to provide more context as to why you are also giving those definitions when the topic seems to be FADs. If they are related or can be used interchangeably, I would explain this to make sure the reader understands they are the same or how they differ. For both the OIE and FAO, do these organizations have wiki pages you could possibly link to in case the reader wants more information on them? From a formatting perspective, I might start a new paragraph or even subsection for the role the FAO plays in animal health. The mention of the global eradication of rinderpest seems a little random. It might be helpful to provide more context around that and how the organizations were able to successfully eradicate rinderpest. It would be interesting if you included what is currently being done to keep the FADs discussed out of the US. I believe this sentence needs updating, I am not sure if the word “good” is meant to be here – “The CSF virus can persist in good and tissues after death”. Looks like you are off to a great start with lots more to add. One consideration may be to look at how these FADs play into the overall risk assessment or risk analysis in bringing swine or other animals to the US. There are obviously a lot of considerations to be made but it seems that just stating not allowing the viruses into the US is a very strict requirement. Obviously, we cannot have these viruses enter the US but how might we keep them out or what is in place currently to avoid them from entering the country? What risk assessment has already been done by organizations to ensure that these FADs do not become an issue in the US? 570mna (talk) 20:08, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Your draft is about the foreign animal disease in the United States. A Foreign animal disease has been an issue of major concern because of the threat it poses to food safety in the country. Therefore, people have come out to find ways of dealing with the issue. I think these important points about the nature of the problem are identified clearly in the overview section of the paper. You also present a clear definition of the topic with a structured presentation of the content.

The content of your draft, which is about a foreign animal disease, involves concepts that are quite suitable for the control of the problem. It is important to consider the fact that food security may be threatened by a foreign animal disease. This fact shows the seriousness of the issue, which has to be addressed whenever it arises and even prevented. A Foreign animal disease can lead to livestock production losses. The losses come in the form of the dead livestock and the money that is spent in treating the animals to counter the problem. I think there are many consequences of leaving this condition to proceed without attention to it.

The goodness of your particular draft is that it discusses the definition and critical details of the disease. It is good for those who intend to understand the disease. The suggestions about the ways this disease can be managed are quite significant and needed for management of the disease. Your specific draft does mention some of the critical organizations whose participation in this fight against FAD has been quite helpful. An example of the organizations that deal with FAD is World Organization for Animal Health.

Your draft is also important and informative with its mention of the various diseases that form FAD. Some of the diseases include the African Swine Fever. It is described as a contagious and viral disease that normally affects pigs. Interestingly, there is no available treatment for this particular disease. Therefore, the agencies that engage themselves in the task of preventing this disease must consider it serious and find ways of ensuring it does not affect the livestock in the country. 570iya (talk) 05:13, 15 November 2017 (UTC)570iya

Hello, this article has a really nice visual appeal in the way that your fonts and use of bold text looks to me. I think the information you present is great, at some points throughout reading it does get a little bit long and informative, which is very good but could also lose some readers along the way. I think a nice way that you could save some of your time, the readers time, and still get your information across would be to link some of the disease considered for FAD in US from your page to their own Wiki-page (assuming they have their own page). Doing this will let the reader get a brief overview of all of the diseases that exist and let them pick and choose which diseases they want to investigate more thoroughly. I also think that by doing this you are redirecting Wiki traffic across many different topic pages which is a nice way to exploit Wikipedia's strengths and usefulness. 570cjd (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Is your intent to leave each agency and type of disease open to further edits? I agree with the commentary above in that the use of linking to other pages may be beneficial to allow those who are seeking more information about these topics in the meantime. [(User:570smb)] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 570smb (talk • contribs) 22:57, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello there, I think you are off to a great start. You've done a good job in setting up the article similar to other wiki styles in that you give ample definitions and background. As others have wondered, I too want to know if you are intentionally leaving some of the diseases blank or if you intend to talk about them like you did african swine fever, classical swine fever, etc. I found it useful to link current wiki pages that may be of help when discussing your current topic. I look forward to seeing your finished product. -570alp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 570alp (talk • contribs) 22:37, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi this is a great start to the article. Do you intend to leave out descriptions of the other diseases? A couple areas I would suggest adding are where these diseases are currently prevalent and or where outbreaks have happened in the recent years. Good start! 570bcs (talk) 01:02, 20 November 2017 (UTC)570bcs

I have been so impressed and excited at everyone's topic choices so far, and yours is a topic near and dear to my heart!!! I love that you chose this topic, as it is something extremely important to the involved agencies that you list. The monitoring of these diseases is critical, as their appearance/outbreaks in the United States could have far-reaching and devastating consequences. While I am impressed at the massive article you are working on, I too wonder (as others have suggested), if rather than going so in-depth on the different diseases, you could write a small blurb and then link to their respective Wikipedia pages (because just from glancing at your list, I know they exist because I have read them). I didn't personally think your descriptions detracted from the readability of the article, because the diseases are the interesting bits to me over the regulatory parts, but that might make your life a little easier to provide some links! Again, perhaps that is a personal preference. I think your formatting is great, and your topic area fits in well with the purpose of the assignment and the objectives of the course as a whole. Very good work :) 570hjm (talk) 04:48, 20 November 2017 (UTC)570hjm