The ongoing trend towards livestock product consumption in many Asian countries has been accompanied by growth in some countries’ imports of feedgrains for their domestic livestock sectors. It has also has put pressure on available grain supplies for human consumption. With regard to China, this contributes to the ongoing debate over future levels of her grain imports. Yet published projections...

92% of the 38 responding countries conduct livestock census, of which 18 follow scheduled programmes. Of the 15 countries that have an ad hoc programme, only 8 have legislation supporting livestock census either within the veterinary services, the central statistics authority or to a limited extent within the Ministry of Livestock/Agriculture. There was no apparent relationship between absence ...

We carried out a study to determine ethno-veterinary knowledge used to treat and prevent livestock diseases in Toteng Village in Ngamiland District, northwestern Botswana. Primary data were collected through simple random sampling of 45 households in Toteng. Respondents were either livestock owners or cattle herders. Respondents were interviewed using a structured questionnaire which had both o...

echinococcosis is the major helminthic parasitic infection in iran. the health hazard and economic loss in man and livestock is significant. in this study 3 major topics as the prevalence of hydatid cyst in human population, in livestock and echinococcosis in stray dogs, were studied. total of 1114 serum samples in different age groups in sanandaj and divandareh area of kurdestan province in we...

In recent years, an increasing number of zoonotic diseases and outbreaks affecting people around the world and it is estimated that of the emerging infectious diseases of humans, 75% are zoonosis (Merianos, 2007). Clearly, these recent events, a number of issues are involved, a fundamental question to be the livestock production systems, as well as the mismanagement of the health of livestock. ...

The diagnostic needs for FMD control will vary. In some cases virus detection will be required, in other cases antibody detection. It is, however, essential to be prepared. Quantitative knowledge about the samples size, sensitivity and specificity of the test is therefore important. For the FMD contingency plan in the Netherlands we developed a stochastic FMD transmission model to evaluate cont...

Reports of livestock depredation by large predators were systematically collected at three study sites in northwestern Zimbabwe from 2008-2013. We recorded 1,527 incidents (2,039 animals killed and 306 injured). Lions (Panthera leo) and spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) were mostly responsible, and cattle and donkeys most frequently attacked. Patterns of predation were variable among study site...

While there have been increasing numbers of reports of human-wolf conflict in China during recent years, little is known about the nature of this conflict. In this study, we used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to investigate local villagers' perceptions of wolves in Jiuzhaigou County, western China. We sampled nine villages with more frequent reports of wolf depredation to the lo...