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Biosecurity System to Protect Breeding Farms

Breeding farms are meant to rear animals. However, they also carry with them an undesirable, yet very nearly unavoidable byproduct: disease, making breeding farms breeding grounds for diseases as well. A breeding farm could breed just any kind of livestock-cattle, pigs or poultry -but all these carry the risk of infections to and from the animals. Some of the main reasons for which infections and contaminations could spread from animals include their sickness, failure to vaccinate them, or their lack of hygiene. Further, many workers including farm workers, cleaners and veterinary professionals, who are in constant close contact with the animals could spread these germs and bacteria when they come into contact with others. Many a time, people who visit these farms for any casual reasons could also become spreaders of livestock diseases. The equipment used in these farms could also be agents of disease. One of the safeguards to this problem is in building biosecurity syste