Beyond Prevention: Building Disease Resilience
Biosecurity is not just about keeping disease out. It creates systems that detect threats early, respond decisively, and contain spread before minor incidents become major crises.
Kora transforms biosecurity from reactive crisis management into proactive disease resilience. It integrates prevention, detection, and response systems that work together.
Chapter 11 explores comprehensive biosecurity features. These features create layered protection: visitor screening prevents introduction, quarantine protocols isolate threats, contact tracing identifies exposures, outbreak management coordinates multi-animal responses, and compliance tracking ensures systematic execution.
What This Chapter Covers
Biosecurity Dashboard (11.1): Risk overview, active zones, protocol status, quarantine tracking, compliance monitoring, and recent biosecurity activity at a glance.
Quarantine Management (11.2): Automatic quarantine duration calculation, health check scheduling, extension management, zone integration, and release protocols.
Contact Tracing (11.3): Automatic exposure detection, risk scoring, quarantine recommendations, outbreak identification, and contact network visualisation.
Visitor Management (11.4): QR code check-in and check-out, risk screening, manager approval workflows, zone access control, and biosecurity briefing tracking.
Biosecurity Protocols (11.5): Protocol creation, scheduled assessments, execution tracking, compliance monitoring, and overdue protocol alerts.
The Biosecurity Ecosystem
Biosecurity in Kora operates through interconnected features that strengthen each other.
Spatial enforcement (Chapter 9.4 Biosecurity Zones) defines geographic areas with security requirements. Quarantine zones restrict access. High-risk areas demand sanitisation. Public zones allow visitor access. Zones provide visual enforcement making biosecurity rules immediately obvious on maps.
Health surveillance (Chapter 10 Health Management) feeds biosecurity systems. Veterinary observations diagnosing contagious diseases automatically trigger contact tracing, exposure identification, and quarantine recommendations. One diagnosis can activate entire outbreak response protocols.
Movement tracking (Chapter 7.3 Movements) enables contact tracing. When disease is diagnosed, the system analyses movement history. It identifies which animals shared locations. This creates contact networks showing exposure pathways.
Knowledge integration (Chapter 4 Knowledge API) provides disease intelligence. Disease profiles contain incubation periods, contagious periods, and transmission rates. These automatically calculate appropriate quarantine durations and risk scores. This ensures science-based biosecurity decisions.
Traceability (Chapter 12) documents all biosecurity events. Every quarantine, visitor check-in, protocol execution, and health check becomes a permanent record. This supports regulatory compliance and outbreak investigations.
These features work together creating comprehensive biosecurity management. They are not isolated tools but integrated systems that activate automatically when threats emerge.
From Detection to Resolution
Kora's biosecurity features support the complete disease management lifecycle.
Prevention: Visitor screening, biosecurity protocols, zone-based access control, and feed safety monitoring prevent disease introduction.
Early detection: Health observations, veterinary diagnoses, and systematic health assessments identify potential threats early. This happens before widespread transmission.
Rapid response: Automatic contact tracing, quarantine recommendations, and protocol activation respond immediately when disease is diagnosed. No manual investigation needed.
Containment: Quarantine zones, movement restrictions, biosecurity protocols, and health monitoring contain disease spread. This prevents facility-wide outbreaks.
Outbreak management: Multi-animal outbreak coordination links exposures, quarantines, protocols, and regulatory notifications into unified incident response. This handles complex disease events.
Compliance documentation: Complete audit trail of all biosecurity actions supports regulatory reporting, outbreak investigations, and continuous improvement.
This lifecycle approach ensures biosecurity responses are systematic, evidence-based, and comprehensively documented.
Automatic Disease Intelligence
One of Kora's most powerful biosecurity features is automatic disease profile integration.
When a veterinarian diagnoses a contagious disease, Kora:
- Looks up disease characteristics from the knowledge database. Incubation period, contagious period, transmission rate, and zoonotic risk.
- Calculates quarantine duration automatically using incubation plus contagious periods. No manual calculation. No errors.
- Computes exposure risk scores based on contact type, duration, and transmission rate. This prioritises which animals need urgent attention.
- Recommends quarantine for high-risk contacts. Science-based decisions, not guesswork.
- Suggests health check frequency appropriate to disease severity. Daily monitoring for high-risk diseases.
This integration means veterinarians do not need to remember every disease's incubation period. They do not need to manually calculate quarantine dates. The system provides evidence-based recommendations instantly.
Outbreak Detection and Coordination
When multiple animals show disease exposure, Kora automatically detects outbreak patterns.
If three or more related contact exposures from the same disease are identified, the system can create an OutbreakEvent. This is a coordinating entity that:
- Links all related exposures into unified incident (not scattered individual cases)
- Tracks confirmed and suspected cases showing outbreak progression
- Coordinates quarantine responses across multiple animals and locations
- Manages biosecurity protocols specific to the outbreak disease
- Documents timeline events creating complete outbreak history
- Facilitates regulatory notifications when required by disease type or severity
Outbreak management transforms chaotic multi-animal disease events into systematic, coordinated responses. It provides clear status tracking: Pending, Active, Contained, Resolved, Archived.
Visitor Control and Risk Screening
External visitors represent biosecurity risks. They may visit multiple properties, contact livestock elsewhere, or travel from disease-endemic regions.
Kora's visitor management system:
- Generates QR codes for easy check-in and check-out (no paper logbooks)
- Screens risk factors systematically: international travel, multi-property contact, livestock market exposure, illness symptoms
- Calculates risk levels (Green, Amber, Red) using point-based assessment (0 to 100 score)
- Requires manager approval for high-risk visitors before granting access
- Tracks zone access documenting exactly where visitors went
- Logs biosecurity compliance (sanitisation, PPE, health declaration, briefing completion)
This systematic screening prevents high-risk visitors from accidentally introducing disease. It maintains visitor access for legitimate purposes.
Flexible Biosecurity
Kora respects that biosecurity requirements vary dramatically across contexts.
Commercial farms may focus on production animal health, movement compliance, and market access certifications.
Zoos balance visitor access with disease prevention. They manage public zones alongside quarantine facilities.
Wildlife operations implement field biosecurity for diverse species across large territories. They work with minimal infrastructure.
Conservation programmes protect endangered populations from disease threats. They facilitate breeding coordination.
Research facilities maintain strict contamination control. They support scientific protocols.
Kora provides the biosecurity tools: zones, quarantine, protocols, visitor management, and contact tracing. It does not prescribe how you use them. Configure biosecurity systems appropriate to your context, regulatory requirements, and operational reality.
Desktop vs Mobile for Biosecurity
Desktop excels at:
- Biosecurity dashboard analysis (risk overview, compliance tracking, protocol status)
- Creating and managing biosecurity zones
- Configuring biosecurity protocols
- Reviewing outbreak timelines and exposure networks
- Analysing contact tracing results and quarantine histories
- Visitor risk assessment and manager approvals
- Compliance report generation
Mobile works well for:
- Visitor QR code check-in and check-out (field scanning)
- Quick biosecurity protocol execution logging
- Quarantine health check recording
- GPS-tagged field observations triggering contact tracing
- Viewing active quarantines and biosecurity zone warnings
- Protocol compliance checklists
Complex biosecurity configuration and analysis happens on desktop. Field operations happen on mobile: visitor check-in, protocol execution, health checks. Both sync to the same comprehensive biosecurity system.
Integration with Other Features
Biosecurity connects deeply with nearly every aspect of Kora.
Animal Management (Chapter 8): Quarantine status appears as smart badges on animal profiles. Health history informs contact tracing risk calculations.
Maps (Chapter 9): Biosecurity zones display on maps with colour-coded security levels. GPS-tagged observations enable location-based contact detection.
Health Management (Chapter 10): Veterinary diagnoses trigger automatic contact tracing and quarantine recommendations. Health assessments track welfare during quarantine periods.
Traceability (Chapter 12): All biosecurity events create immutable traceability records. Movement history enables accurate contact tracing.
Tasks (Chapter 7.2): Biosecurity protocols auto-generate scheduled tasks. Overdue protocols create task alerts.
Wildlife Management (Chapter 15): GPS collar data enables contact tracing for wildlife. Disease exposure tracking for conservation populations.
AMR Tracking (Chapter 19): Antimicrobial treatments during disease outbreaks tracked for stewardship compliance.
Biosecurity is not siloed. It is woven throughout the entire animal management system.
Learning Approach for This Chapter
Section 11.1 introduces the Biosecurity Dashboard. Your central command centre showing risk overview, active zones, quarantine status, protocol compliance, and recent biosecurity activity.
Section 11.2 covers Quarantine Management. How quarantine durations are calculated automatically, health checks scheduled, extensions managed, and releases executed safely.
Section 11.3 explores Contact Tracing. Automatic exposure detection, risk scoring, contact network visualisation, and quarantine recommendations based on disease transmission data.
Section 11.4 details Visitor Management. QR code workflows, risk screening systems, manager approval processes, and biosecurity compliance tracking for external visitors.
Section 11.5 explains Biosecurity Protocols. Creating protocols, scheduling assessments, tracking execution, monitoring compliance, and managing overdue protocol alerts.
Work through sections based on your biosecurity priorities. Operations with high visitor traffic will focus on 11.4. Facilities managing quarantine regularly need 11.2 mastery. Anyone responding to disease diagnoses benefits from understanding 11.3 Contact Tracing.