The presence of domestic animals is a key feature the Neolithic. Their earliest in archaeological contexts across European continent often interpreted as reflecting farming practices. However, escape, survive, and become feral. Using comparative example colonial North America, this article's aim to illustrate what happens when livestock are introduced new, continental temperate environment. Tak...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in animals and humans on veal, dairy, beef and broiler farms and to compare the risk for human MRSA carriage with that of strictly horticulture farmers. The genetic background, resistance phenotypes and genotypes and toxin gene content of the isolated MRSA strains were compared with MRSA c...

BACKGROUND Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) complex could be possible between farmers and their cattle in Ethiopia. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A study was conducted in mixed type multi-purposes cattle raising region of Ethiopia on 287 households (146 households with case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and 141 free of TB) and 287 herds consisting of 2,033 cattle...

Abstract In this article, we investigate the nature of fear among farmers working with animal production particular focus on impact harassment and crimes linked to rights activism. The study is based responses from 3815 a national survey in 2020 Sweden. Cross-table analysis logistic regression models underlie methodology study. Findings show that three out ten those feel afraid being victimized...

Every innovation is targeted towards adoption; a process which involves several levels of risks. Bio-fortified Vitamin A cassava variety is an innovation targeted not only to solve the yield of farmers but to increase the nutritional intake of Nigerian household. The research specifically seeks to investigate; the risks involved in the adoption of vitamin A cassava variety; the risk attitude of...

Most Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) have developing economies and face a critical shortage of veterinarians with limited financial resources allocated to their animal disease surveillance programmes. Thus, animal health authorities have to set priorities for better focusing their scarce resources. The main objective of this study was to identify animal diseases perceived to be...

BACKGROUND Mortality risk in Danish dairy cows has more than doubled since 1990 (from 2% in 1990 to 5% in 2005). Until now, registrations about dead cows in the Danish Cattle Database have not included information about whether the cow died unassisted or was euthanized. METHODS We interviewed a random sample of 196 Danish dairy farmers that had reported a dead cow to the Danish Cattle Databas...

This review examined environmental and management stressors of farm animals and the effects they have on reproductive and productive performances of livestock. Stress is revealed by the inability of an animal to cope with its environment, a phenomenon that is often reflected in a failure to achieve reproductive, productive and genetic potentials. Identification of environmental and management f...

Background and aims: Animal bites are a significant threat to human health because of fatality of subsequent infections such as rabies. The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiology of animal bites during a five-year period in Shush County. Methods: In a descriptive cross sectional study, all cases of animal bites referred to the health centers in Shush County were investigated during...