The government must give consistent advice to farmers about animal disease control strategies.
The meeting revealed a broad consensus that the best short-term strategy is to tackle and eliminate the animal disease.
The council had agreed an all-island animal health and welfare strategy which had the potential to help prevent and reduce animal disease spreading, said the minister.
"I think from the vantage point of safety, this is not very smart to build an animal disease laboratory in the heartland, and in an area that is quite frequently plagued by tornadoes, " he said.
After a few years of discussion about whether to upgrade the labs, the homeland security department announced in 2009 that it would move the animal-disease research to a planned Kansas facility.
Pitman, of Stirrup Close, had faced 19 charges and pleaded guilty to two charges relating to animal identification for disease control.
Scientists found however, that feeder cells and serums derived from other animal cells introduced disease-causing agents that compromised the quality of the cell lines.
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On epidemiologists' standard assumption that every individual counts, vaccination programmes are intended to prevent epidemics by ensuring that each infected animal, on average, passes the disease on to less than one healthy animal.
For example, widespread failure in our handful of remaining major crops and animal breeds due to disease or pest outbreaks is a very real possibility: given that pest and pathogens are constantly evolving, a diverse gene pool is essential if we are to develop insect- and disease-resistant strains in the future.
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"There is only a proportion of the animal population here that is susceptible to the disease, but it is not entirely clear how much of the animal collection would have to be culled should the outbreak reach Edinburgh Zoo, " he said.
An increasing focus among public health officials and the media is the prospect that transmission of the disease is not only animal-to-animal but also human-to-human.
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But Professor Brown believes the government has not learned from the past and is more concerned about the animal export market than controlling the disease.
In another application, scientists selectively stimulated brain cells in animal models of Parkinson's disease, a disease that involves the disruption of information-processing in the brain.
The drug maker said its executives had been targets of animal-rights extremists and "disease-specific extreme activists" who had printed fliers with photos of the company's leaders.
The 13 cases, many of them linked to one Saudi hospital, suggest that the spread of this coronavirus may have reached a dangerous new stage in which it is spreading from one human to another, rather than infecting humans from another source such as an infected animal, according to infectious-disease experts.
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In the 1950s antibiotics spread to animal feed as growth promoters and for disease prevention.
Counties considered high risk will be subjected to stricter controls than those free of the disease, where restrictions on animal movements will be lessened.
In theory, disease could also spread if the animal microbes pass their drug-resistant genes to human bacterial strains.
Some animal data may also indicate it reverses the disease's cause: damage to the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
The authorities in the affected provinces have attempted to stamp out the disease by employing quarantines and limiting animal movements in susceptible areas.
But no one knows which disease will be next, what animal will be its natural host, where it will happen, or how dangerous it will be.
And while it is illegal to give poultry hormones in the United States, antibiotic use to promote animal growth, as well as to prevent disease, is nearly universal in intensive farming and ranching of animals.
The disease poses no risk to human or animal health and public access to woodlands is not restricted.
Although both jumped the "animal-to-human" barrier, neither disease mutated enough to enable sustained human-to-human infection, said Dr. K.Y.
The issue of if and how to cull badgers, which spread the disease, has been fraught by disagreements on practicality and animal rights.
It closely resembles a coronavirus found in bats, but exactly how it jumped to humans isn't known, said Peter Daszak, president and disease ecologist at EcoHealth Alliance, an organization that researches the animal origins of emerging viruses.
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The Chinese government has increased disease surveillance, infection prevention and control and communication between human and animal health and industry sectors.
French consumption of beef plunged last year when three supermarket chains said they had sold beef from a herd containing an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The animal is passed over a sick person, and then split open and examined for clues to the disease.
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