Globalization of communicable animal diseases - a crisis of veterinary medicine
2003
Kouba, V.
The analysis of animal diseases globalization is based on official reports on communicable disease introductions through international trade. Number of available reports on these cases during 1980-2000 reached 607: 117 OIE List A disease cases (including 33 of foot-and-mouth disease), 365 OIE List B disease cases (74 of multiple animal species diseases, 142 of cattle diseases, 42 of sheep and goat diseases, 29 of horse diseases, 12 of pig diseases, 49 of avian diseases, etc.), 108 OIE List C disease cases and 17 cases of other diseases. The import of diseases transmissible to man was reported 212 times. Cases of disease reappearance, i.e. newly imported or reemerged after 3 and more years, were reported 329 times. The analysis proved an alarming worsening of animal health in the world during the studied period.
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