Veterinary Preventive medicine deals with the epidemiology of major epizootic diseases particularly those caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses and have a significant impact on the Ethiopian economy. Emphasis is given to the distribution within the country, diagnosis and application of appropriate control and prevention methods on epidemic and endemic diseases. This course, hence, deals with host defense mechanisms, immunity, vector borne diseases, soil borne diseases, and contact infections, epidemiology of diseases in the pastoral, small holder, ranching, feedlot, and intensive dairy farm production systems.

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