Volume 22 • Issue 02 • 2018
Practical use of disease
recording for the purpose of herd
health management
Dr Danie Odendaal
Veterinarian Network
Jan
Feb
2016
2016
By recording diseases on a monthly basis the practitioner gets access to a 12 month overview of diseases
in the practice area called the “Disease Overview”. This “Disease Overview” is real time and generated
for each species of livestock. All that the practitioner needs to do is to log in to the V-Net system (www.v-
data.co.za) using his/her username and password. If you are reporting and don’t have a username and
password you can obtain it from Frikkie Beukes at cell phone no 0829095996.
Internal Parasites
Brown stomach-worm
Conical Flukes
Liver fluke
Roundworms in general
Tape Worms
External Parasites
Blue ticks
Brown ear-ticks
Heartwater (Bont) ticks
Mange Mites
Nuisance Flies
Paralysis ticks
Resistant blue Ticks
Tick-borne Diseases
African red water
Anaplasmosis
Asiatic red water
Heartwater
Insect Transmittable Diseases
Lumpy skin disease
Three-day-stiffsickness
A planned herd-health approach focuses on
priority diseases as identified with the “Disease
Overview”
The discussion below gives an example of how
this bigger picture of disease occurrence and
distribution can be used, to adapt the approach
in order to provide planned herd-health services.
In this approach, the full extent of veterinary
knowledge, experience and services are used to
maintain or improve the production potential of
a dairy farm.
An actual
overview for
a practice in
KZN (Estcourt
Vet Clinic) for
dairy cattle
over the last 36
months – due
to the length of
the report only
the first few
categories are
shown.
1. Identify the Occurrence and
Importance of a Specific Disease.
Liver Fluke is used in this case as
an example.
To get a better picture, it is worthwhile to view
the occurrence of this disease condition over
the last 2 years or longer (if the records exist)
for an even better understanding of the disease
prevention or early treatment options.
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