Program for Protection of Livestock and Poultry

Program for Protection of Livestock and Poultry

The working group appointed by the NME-USDA Conference on Livestock Protection drafted a program intended to protect livestock and poultry. They take a look at some of the most critical animal diseases at the time and offer suggestions to better improve the United States' control over these diseases.

1949

The group believes that U.S. should create an agency to share information about animal disease activity/outbreaks at the national, state, and local levels. Facilities to research rinderpest should be reestablished an improved. Facilities to research foot-and-mouth disease should be established. Research for Newcastle Disease and the Fowl Plague should be improved as well. Data from animal diseases and animal populations world-wide should be collected and compiled. The U.S. should work on passing legislation that restricts importation of garbage from other nations into the U.S. or its waters, since animal disease can also spread this way.