ASC350 Animal Health (8)
Prerequisite: ASC171
This subject introduces students to the principles of health and disease in farm production animals and horses. It covers topics such as immunology, epidemiology, parasitology, exotic diseases, stress, pharmacology and animal health economics. Within these topics the subject allows specialisation for either horses or farm animals.
The focus of the subject content is from a herd health perspective which promotes prevention of disease in the herd as well as the individual through sound management and husbandry.