[Estimation of the financial reserves required by livestock disease compensation funds for rebates in the course of disease outbreaks using the example of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)]. / Abschätzung der für Kompensationen im Zusammenhang mit Tierseuchenausbrüchen erforderlichen finanziellen Rücklagen einer Tierseuchenkasse am Beispiel Sachsen-Anhalts.

With certain restrictions, the federal states of Germany are obligated to financially compensate livestock owners for animal losses due to livestock diseases. If livestock disease compensation funds demand contributions from livestock owners for certain species in order to pay compensations, the federal states have to pay only one half of the rebate. The remaining 50% has to be financed through reserves of the respective compensation fund built up with the contributions. But there is no reference on how to calculate such financial reserves. Therefore, for the livestock disease compensation fund of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), an attempt was made to estimate the required reserves.To this end, expert opinions concerning the expected number of affected holdings in potential outbreaks of different diseases were collected. In a conservative approach, assuming these diseases occur in parallel within a single year, overall costs as well as individual costs for altogether 25 categories and subcategories of livestock species were stochastically modeled.The 99.9th percentile of the resulting frequency distribution of the overall costs referred to a financial volume of about 23 million euro. Thus, financial reserves of 11,5 million euro were recommended to the livestock disease compensation fund.

[Acute pasteurellosis in fallow deer, cattle and pigs in a region of Eastern Germany]. / Akute Pasteurellose bei Damwild, Rindern und Schweinen in einer Region im Osten Deutschlands.

Hemorrhagic septicaemia, an acute disease caused by P multocida capsular type B which is rarely detected in Europe, caused considerable losses in fallow deer, cattle and pigs within a region along the border of the federal states Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt in the summer of 2010. Clinical appearances and diagnostic findings are presented and possible triggering influences discussed. Pasteurella multocida capsular type B has not been cultivated from clinically healthy cattle and pigs of the region. Examination of fallow deer and roe deer in the region revealed the presence of singular carriers, which may act as a source of clinical infections.

[Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes in Saxony-Anhalt: identification of areas of increased risk of infestation and association of the infestation probability with the average annual maximum temperature]. / Echinococcus multilocularis bei Rot- füchsen in Sachsen-Anhalt: Identifizierung von Gebieten mit erhöhtem Infestations- risiko und Assoziation der Infestations- wahrscheinlichkeit mit der durchschnitt- lichen Jahresmaximaltemperatur.

Between 1998 and 2004 1341 Red Foxes from 611 locations were examined parasitologically for Echinococcus multilocularis at the State Office of Consumer Protection Saxony-Anhalt. Examination was carried out in parallel to rabies monitoring. A period-prevalence of 9.2% of infestation was found. Employing a Scan Statistic a large area in the southwest of the federal state and two smaller areas of increased risk with respect to infestation with Echinococcus multilocularis were identified. The hypothesis of a negative association of the probability of infestation with the average annual maximum temperature of the location where the foxes were shot was supported by logistic regression analysis. A decreased probability of inactivation of Echinococcus multilocularis-oncospheres through heat and desiccation in areas of lower average annual maximum temperature seems to be likely.Thus, the infection pressure increases with reduced temperatures.

[Evaluation of the performance to date of the BHV-1 eradication campaign in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)]. / Evaluierung des bisherigen Verlaufs des BHV-1 Tilgungsverfahrens in Sachsen-Anhalt.

The present article is attempting to evaluate the to date performance of the BHV-1 eradication campaign currently run in Saxony-Anhalt. Special emphasis is put on the modelling of missing data and an optimum performance--for comparison with the observed progress of eradication. The eradication campaign turned out to have performed almost optimally so far, but problems might arise in its final phase due to insular management deficiencies and violation of laws, as well. Possible sanctions are mentioned.