Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2010
Journal or Book Title
Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals
First Page
52
Last Page
76
Abstract
Historically, livestock and poultry diseases have been introduced into new areas by the uncontrolled importation of animals and trade (including smuggling), through the movements of people and wildlife, and by vectors. Some diseases spread widely in the past. Rinderpest or “cattle plague,” for example, devastated farms as it was transported across continents by invading armies and their cattle, as well as by trade, the development of railways, and other factors. Other pathogens remained fairly localized for various reasons. Most of the parasites that cause African animal trypanosomiasis, for instance, must be transmitted by tsetse flies, and these insects have not become established outside the “tsetse fly belt” of Africa. As livestock production became more sophisticated, countries with sufficient resources set up border controls and surveillance to prevent the introduction of new diseases. Many nations have also eradicated serious diseases such as classical swine fever, highly virulent Newcastle disease, foot and mouth disease, glanders, and bovine babesiosis. However, some countries do not have the resources or the veterinary infrastructure for such efforts. In these areas, diseases that are exotic to the rest of the world remain a persistent problem, causing illness and deaths among animals, loss of productivity, and in some cases, human disease. Through international travel, livestock trade, and other routes, such agents can be accidentally reintroduced to nations that have become disease free.
Copyright Owner
Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Spickler, Anna R.; Galyon, Jane; and Roth, James A., "Descriptions of Recent Incursions of Exotic Animal Diseases" (2010). Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine Publications. 95.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/vmpm_pubs/95
Included in
Veterinary Infectious Diseases Commons, Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology Commons, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health Commons
Comments
This chapter is from Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals, 4th ed., chapter 5 (2010: 52. Posted with permission.