The purpose of this agreement is to provide for a comprehensive approach for animal health management in idaho utilizing surveillance, monitoring, reporting, prevention, control and education…

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), provides $242,731 to the Idaho Department of Agriculture (ISDA) to support comprehensive animal health management activities in Idaho. The key products and services to be delivered include: avian influenza surveillance and response planning, biosecurity and disease prevention education for poultry facilities, brucellosis and tuberculosis surveillance in cattle and bison, and epidemiological investigations and disease response coordination. These efforts aim to enable earlier disease detection and rapid action to decrease the spread and costs of animal disease incursions, while maintaining national, state, and herd health certifications. The award period is from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026.

The purpose of this agreement is to provide for a comprehensive approach for animal health management in idaho utilizing surveillance, monitoring, reporting, prevention, control and education activities for animal diseases of interest. Activities to be performed - activities the recipient will perform primarily include those related to avian, cattle and bison health with a major focus on avian influenza, brucellosis and tuberculosis. Examples of avian activities are avian influenza surveillance sampling, response plan for when H5 or H7 avian influenza positives are found, data entry and record keeping for the national poultry improvement plan, inspection and biosecurity audits of national poultry improvement plan premises, and education regarding biosecurity and disease prevention. Brucellosis activities include conducting surveillance in cattle, bison and high-risk wild ELK populations, implementing risk-based management plans, collaborating between agencies to address brucellosis spread from ELK to livestock, providing education and promoting abortion screening. Additional activities for brucellosis and other diseases include supplying disease surveillance and outreach data to animal plant health inspection service and conducting epidemiologic investigations and disease response AC tivities. Deliverables and expected outcomes - avian health goals are to quickly diagnose, control, and prevent the spread of H5 and H7 avian influenza subtypes; and improve biosecurity, sanitation, and disease control on poultry facilities. Cattle/bison health goals include surveillance and outreach to maintain national, state and herd disease status certifications. These efforts will result in earlier disease detection and rapid action to decrease spread, thereby decreasing the cost of disease incursions. The recipient must submit quarterly accomplishments and financial reports and provide other animal health data to aphis. Intended beneficiaries - the beneficiaries of these efforts will be livestock and poultry owners, state and federal agencies and consumers. Subrecipient activities - the sub awardee to this agreement is the idaho department of fish and game. Idaho department of fish and game will assist with brucellosis surveillance in wild ELK and mitigation of interactions between wild ELK and domestic cattle, bison and cervids during the at-risk period of brucellosis disease transmission from ELK to livestock.