Animal Diseases and Animal Food

New Infectious Diseases and Industrial Food Animal Production

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Human and animal diseases

The oldest known transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) is scrapie which affects sheep and occasionally goats. This disease already seems to have been an animal health issue of agricultural importance in the 18th Century, as suggested by this observation by Claridge (1795): ‘This disorder has been known to be fatal to the greatest part of a flock and is considered as the most calamitous ...

Animal cloning and food safety.

Emerging Animal Diseases Bulletin

Leishmaniasis is a well-documented disease of humans and animals worldwide. In humans, leishmaniasis is generally zoonotic with a number of different clinical manifestations ranging from single or multiple skin lesions (cutaneous leishmaniasis) to destruction of the mucosae, including the soft cartilage of the nasal septum (mucocutaneous leishmaniasis) or systemic infections of the liver and sp...

Animal parasites and human diseases.

majority of the parasites commonly referred to as “parasites of man” are in reality parasites of other animals.1 In the latter grouip are such familiar examples as Trichinella, found in rats and many other animals, including pigs; Balantidium and some lesser protozoa of pigs; Toxoplasma, which occurs in many wild and domesticated animals. Trypanosoma cnuzi, which is carried by a variety of anim...