This award will continue to support the kansas department of agriculture animal health division activities related to animal disease surveillance, emergency response planning and preparedness, and…

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 grant program (CFDA 10.025) will provide $154,156 to the Kansas Department of Agriculture to support animal disease surveillance, emergency response planning and preparedness, and training/outreach activities. Key services to be delivered include:

Active and passive surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, brucellosis, tuberculosis, scrapie, chronic wasting disease, and African swine fever. The award will also fund data entry and management for disease tracking and traceability. In addition, the Kansas Department of Agriculture will use the funding to participate in outreach, educational activities, and emergency response planning exercises with veterinarians, livestock producers, and other industry stakeholders. This award is intended to improve the state's ability to plan, prepare for, detect, and respond to animal health emergencies.

Activities

KDA will use this award to perform active and passive surveillance for hpai, BSE, brucellosis, tuberculosis, scrapie, CWD, ASF, and other high consequence livestock diseases through informal audits, sample collection, market inspections, and collaboration with the kansas meat and poultry division. In addition to surveillance, this award will support ongoing data entry and management for disease tracking and traceability purposes. KDA will also use this award to participate in various outreach and educational activities, conferences, meetings with veterinarians, producers, and other industry stakeholders. Finally, this award will support emergency response planning and preparedness through various exercises. Deliverables and expected outcomes: this award will support continued data collection and monitoring for livestock program diseases and foreign animal diseases. This award will also result in improvements to the state's ability to plan, prepare for, detect, and respond to animal health emergencies. Intended beneficiary(IES): intended beneficiaries for this award include the kansas department of agriculture, livestock producers, veterinarians, and industry stakeholders. Subrecipient activities, if known or specified at the time of the award: no subrecipient activities are included in this award.