March 25, 2021
1xbet online games login Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives grants to improve animal disease response
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Researchers at the 1xbet online games login Agricultural Biosecurity Center, or NABC, have been recently awarded three grants for research projects to protect animal health.
The first of these grants from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or USDA APHIS, is an award for 9,340 under the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program. The project 1xbet online games login focus on the creation of a toolkit to enable livestock exhibition organizers, local emergency management officials and livestock owners to work together to develop comprehensive plans for the overall safety of the animals being exhibited.
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A second grant from USDA APHIS through its National Animal Health Laboratory Network, or NAHLN for ,115 was awarded to the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, or KSVDL, who 1xbet online games login be closely collaborating with the NABC and several other partners to design, refine, implement and assess response in a table-top exercise with a follow-up functional exercise of a simulated African Swine Fever outbreak.
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"KSVDL has been participating in foreign animal disease exercises for many years but this opportunity to conduct laboratory-focused exercises 1xbet online games login be a first for us," said Kelli Almes, who serves as the foreign animal disease and outbreak section head at KSVDL. "We are very pleased to have this funding opportunity and the ability to work with such wonderful collaborators on this project."
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The NABC 1xbet online games login collaborate with SNL on the development of a FAVD architecture description by providing subject matter expertise and contributing to the SNL team’s assessment of capabilities, gaps and needs.
"These projects demonstrate national recognition of K-State's strengths in agricultural biosecurity through interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative research," saidMarty Vanier, director of NABC."K-State's involvement in these projects 1xbet online games login strengthen strategic partnerships and collaborations in the region as a model for multi-state and national participatory research and discovery."