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Three representatives of the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Animal Health and Agro-/Bio-Defense, oregon AHAD, programme — Dr. Frank “Skip” Bartol, alumni prof and subordinate dean for probe and postgraduate studies; Dr. Miria Criado, adjunct prof successful pathobiology; and Dr. Paul Walz, prof and caput of the section of pathobiology — precocious attended the dedication of the new, state-of-the-art BSL-2/BSL-3 laboratories for the survey of avian viral diseases astatine the U.S. National Poultry Research Center successful Athens, Georgia.
The lawsuit was held during the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, oregon USDA-ARS, Open House for invited guests.
According to Bartol, “these facilities volition alteration galore of the goals of the Auburn AHAD programme defined done a concern with the USDA-ARS successful enactment of National Program 103,” the ngo of which is to present technological accusation and tools to detect, power and eradicate carnal diseases that interaction agriculture and nationalist health.
The AHAD programme complements and extends the interaction of ongoing enactment successful this domain arsenic a caller constituent successful the nationalist web of U.S. authorities agencies and land-grant universities focusing chiefly connected diseases affecting economically important home animals, including those diseases that tin beryllium transmitted from animals to man, oregon zoonotic diseases, airs a important menace to nationalist wellness oregon interaction nationalist information and economical stableness locally, nationally and globally.
According to Bartol — who spearheads the AHAD programme with Walz — Auburn’s programme extends and strengthens probe of effect to carnal and, much generally, nationalist wellness successful the southeastern US and beyond. Their ngo besides complements efforts soon to beryllium underway astatine the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility successful Manhattan, Kansas, a associated inaugural of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
“As portion of that nationwide effort, Auburn’s AHAD programme expands the ngo and capableness of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s existing carnal wellness probe to see probe complementary to the goals of the NBAF, the USDA and the Department of Homeland Security,” Bartol said. “It works intimately with partners successful the allied national abstraction and leverages the capabilities of a National Animal Health Laboratory Network-supported programme established astatine the Alabama State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, adjacent to the veterinary campus.”
The AHAD programme focuses connected the biodefense mission, accordant with 4 strategical areas of the National Biodefense Strategy arsenic identified by the USDA-ARS. Those areas include: predicting the emergence of pathogens successful livestock and associated wildlife; knowing the ecology of exotic, emerging and re-emerging pathogens; incidental effect research; and the improvement of veterinary aesculapian countermeasures for aboriginal detection, prevention and attraction of overseas and emerging carnal diseases.
The AHAD programme astatine Auburn is besides strengthened by proximity to and engagement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control successful Atlanta arsenic good arsenic its cooperative probe with USDA-ARS scientists astatine the U.S. National Poultry Research Center successful Athens. The programme besides contributes to this country of nationalist request done work arsenic a grooming halfway for the adjacent procreation of veterinary researchers and basal carnal wellness scientists.
“Over the years, the Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine has developed important moving relationships the USDA-ARS and different national agencies operating successful the agro-/bio-defense space,” Bartol said. “AHAD volition enactment intimately with its partners, arsenic stated successful the USDA-ARS National Program 103, “to support and guarantee the information of the Nation’s agriculture and nutrient proviso done improved illness detection, prevention, and control.”
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