TNPSC Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science (Degree Standard), Code 396 · India · Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersAnimal, human and environmental health as one system: One Health governance, AMR surveillance and stewardship, emerging diseases, climate and the Sustainable Development Goals.
In the exams: RPSC One Health unit; EAEVE Day One competences (One Health, SDGs); proposed MSVE revision (AMR and One Health awareness)
How our questions for TNPSC Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Code 396 spread across the units of One Health, Antimicrobial Resistance & Global Health. Difficulty: 16 easy, 9 medium, 0 hard.
| The One Health concept | 4 | |
| Emerging and re-emerging diseases | 4 | |
| One Health in national policy | 4 | |
| Quadripartite governance: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH | 3 | |
| Antimicrobial stewardship | 3 | |
| The UN Sustainable Development Goals | 3 | |
| AMR surveillance | 2 | |
| Climate and health | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The definition of One Health adopted by the Quadripartite agencies in 2021 was drafted by which body?
C. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel advising FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH
The One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), created in 2021, drafted the definition now used by all four agencies. Codex sets food standards and the WOAH Scientific Commission advises on animal disease status; neither wrote the joint definition.
Further reading: OHHLEP, PLoS Pathogens 2022
Which scientist is credited with coining the term 'one medicine' in a 1964 book on veterinary medicine and human health?
B. Calvin Schwabe
Calvin Schwabe used 'one medicine' in Veterinary Medicine and Human Health (1964). Virchow, a century earlier, is credited with the word zoonosis and the idea that no line divides animal and human medicine; Osler taught comparative pathology but did not coin the phrase.
Further reading: Zinsstag J et al., One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
The 'One World, One Health' Manhattan Principles of 2004 came from a meeting convened by:
B. The Wildlife Conservation Society in New York
The Wildlife Conservation Society convened the 2004 meeting at Rockefeller University that produced the Manhattan Principles, which added wildlife and ecosystems to the human-animal pair. The intergovernmental bodies came later.
GLASS, the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System, is run by:
B. WHO
WHO launched GLASS in 2015 for human AMR and antimicrobial use data. WOAH runs ANIMUSE for animal use and FAO runs InFARM for resistance in food animals and food.
Which is NOT one of the five strategic objectives of the WHO Global Action Plan on AMR?
A. Eliminating all antimicrobial use in food-producing animals
The five objectives are awareness, surveillance and research, infection prevention, optimised use, and investment in new medicines, diagnostics and vaccines. The plan aims to optimise use, not to eliminate all animal use.
Hendra virus, first recognised in Australia in 1994, spread to people from which animal?
D. Horses
Flying foxes infect horses, and infected horses transmitted the virus to people who handled them. Pigs were the bridge host for the related Nipah virus.
The global 'Zero by 30' strategic plan aims to:
D. End human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030
Zero by 30, launched in 2018 by WHO, FAO, OIE and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, targets zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030, mainly through mass dog vaccination and access to post-exposure prophylaxis.
Which feature distinguishes the SDGs from the earlier Millennium Development Goals?
B. They apply to all countries, not only to developing countries
The SDGs are universal, applying to every country, and integrate social, economic and environmental goals. They are voluntary commitments with 169 targets and a global indicator framework.
India's first National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance was launched in:
A. 2017
India launched its NAP-AMR in 2017, aligned to the 2015 Global Action Plan, with an additional priority on India's leadership in AMR.
A district has 50,000 owned dogs. To reach the 70% coverage usually recommended for interrupting dog rabies transmission, how many dogs must be vaccinated?
D. 35,000
50,000 x 0.70 = 35,000. 15,000 is the 30% left unvaccinated; 3,500 is a decimal slip (0.07); 50,000 is total coverage, more than the target.
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