The role of wildlife disease research in livestock production
1981
Howard, L.J. (Kapiti Plains Estate, Konza (Kenya))
Research into wildlife diseases, and interrelation of these diseases with domestic stock, has not only provided information that assists in the formulation of management policies but has confirmed the presence of a comparatively disease-free source of animal products. Very little is known of nutritional diseases in wild ruminants and these diseases may well become apparent under confinement or domestication. Current research has not reassured the potential wildlife producer that close collateral development of wild ruminants with domestic stock will not result, within a few generations, in host-specific strains of protoza becoming interadapted or even pathogenic to their new hosts. Research must continue into methods of immunization of domestic livestock against those diseases of economic importance that seriously affect the economy of ranchers and farmers operating in specific habitat zones.
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