Since the early 1980s close contact with animals or animal products infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy has posed a putative risk of infection with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Several groups with potentially high exposure have already been identified. To study whether transmissible spongiform encephalopathy has had any effect on people working in animal husbandry and slaughter, we use...

The public health concerns over the long-term exposure to antibiotics have risen in different parts of the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the antibiotic consumption pattern in livestock and poultry and to estimate the quantity of antibiotic active ingredient (mg) consumed per unit weight (Kg) of red meat, milk and egg production in Iran in 2010. A cross-sectional study was ...

Nutritional science consists of multiple overlapping disciplines: agricultural science including animal husbandry; food science; public health; nutritional physiology; and therapeutic or clinical nutrition. The application of nutritional science to clinical practice has undoubtedly resulted in improved survival and improved quality of life in certain groups of patients. It has also resulted in ...

BACKGROUND Several authors, most prominently Jared Diamond (1997, Guns, Germs and Steel), have investigated biogeographic determinants of human history and civilization. The timing of the transition to an agricultural lifestyle, associated with steep population growth and consequent societal change, has been suggested to be affected by the availability of suitable organisms for domestication. T...

With the continuous increase of world population, intensified industrial activities, and aggravating environmental pollution, biodiversity is severely endangered to an unprecedented extent. Animal resources, a basis of agriculture and the whole society closely related to living and production, supply human beings with meat, eggs, milk, furs, medicinal materials, products for athletic and orname...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether and to what extent there is clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in the prehypertension phase among Mongolians in the rural and animal husbandry area of Inner Mongolia, China. METHODS AND RESULTS The 2,589 Mongolian people aged > or=20 years served as subjects. Demographic data, lifestyle factors and family history of hypertension, blood pressure measurem...

BACKGROUND Although fungal phytase is frequently used as an additive to animal feed few investigations of its allergenic property have been conducted. METHODS Fifty-three subjects occupationally exposed to powdered phytase from Aspergillus niger were studied. Exposure data and symptoms were registered by the company physician. RESULTS Thirty-eight subjects complained of work-related respira...

Smart technologies have drastically reshaped the traditional methods of practicing agriculture as witnessed in husbandry. In this paper, a novel application machine learning identification and classification Muturu Keteku cattle species Nigeria was proposed mainstream model that enables precision intelligence perception animal husbandry for smart agricultural practice using enhanced mask region...

Rural veterinarians are the basic system in China's animal epidemic prevention system, playing an important role disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, public health safety husbandry, assurance of derived food. This article uses OBE concept to analyze mechanism for cultivating rural veterinary talents. Research suggests that distinctive talent training programs should be implemented diffe...