Summary
Despite
enormous progress in scientific knowledge and improvements in sanitary
standards in livestock production, the world has recently been confronted
with several animal disease epidemics which have caused significant
economic losses. General awareness regarding unusual clinical signs
and prompt reporting of disease is an important requirement in disease
detection and control and needs to be promoted among farmers and
veterinarians. Unexpected clinical syndromes are of increasing importance
for public health. Syndromic surveillance has been shown to be a
key element in detecting emerging diseases. Once detected and diagnosed,
surveillance programmes constitute the first step towards determining
the disease pattern with regard to time and space. This pattern
of disease occurrence becomes the basis for selecting approaches
for further disease investigation and for disease control.
Keywords
Animal
diseases, Control programmes, Disease patterns, Disease awareness,
Surveillance. |