Help the kansas department of agriculture animal health division enhance their efforts in disease SU rveillance, preparedness, response and through training and outreach

This award will support efforts across multiple species including poultry, cattle, swine, horses, sheep, and other small ruminants. The recipient will use the award to provide outreach to accredited veterinarians and veterinary students regarding reportable diseases, sample collection and shipping and reporting. The recipient will support sample collections for scrapie and BSE sampling as well as surveille for program diseases by collecting samples from suspect animals and others that help reach passive surveillance levels prescribed by the respective programs. To enhance preparedness and response capabilities the recipient will practice an foreign animal disease response exercise with the award. Other activities include attendance to meeting and trainings to enhance capabilities in animal ID and traceability as well as meeting with other sahos and USDA to further network and build partnerships to strengthen their capabilities. The recipient will provide data on disease surveillance activities to help complete program reporting requirements. The activities undertaken by the recipient will also enhance readiness capabilities of the kansas department of agriculture division of animal health to respond to an animal disease outbreak locally or in the US. The outreach activities will result in a better educated and prepared population of veterinarians and stakeholders across kansas. Beneficiaries of this cooperative agreement include the USDA, agricultural stakeholders in the state of kansas and nationwide as well as the kansas department of agriculture. This award will not result in any sub-awards.