ZIMSEC O-Level Agriculture
5.4.7Animal health
Animal health in ZIMSEC O-Level Agriculture: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 5.4.7.1Form 1: define animal health and distinguish healthy from unhealthy livestock.
- 5.4.7.2Form 2: explain the causes of diseases and their modes of transmission, justify hygiene and discuss methods of disease control.
- 5.4.7.3Form 3: recognise the signs of notifiable diseases (anthrax; foot-and-mouth or Newcastle disease; trypanosomiasis) and describe their control.
- 5.4.7.4Form 4: identify internal and external parasites and describe the life cycles of one tick and one roundworm, and their prevention and control.
- 5.4.7.5Form 4: explain the Animal Health Act and describe the types of immunity in livestock.
Lessons
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Causes and spread of livestock diseases, and hygiene
40 min
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External parasites: ticks, lice, mites and flies
45 min
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Internal parasites: roundworms, tapeworms and liver fluke
40 min
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Notifiable diseases, immunity and vaccination
45 min
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Signs of health and ill-health in livestock
35 min
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