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Tough livestock measures
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Tough livestock measures
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Prompted by the special article on Epizootics and animal health: the high cost of cutting corners (Spore 94), our tireless correspondent Samuel Zelehe, of Fambella, Ethiopia, has written about the need for great caution. 'Most ACP farmers may not give serious attention to the risk of BSE to their animals since they do not import meat and bone meal for feeding their livestock. But there are several ways by which BSE and other contagious diseases affect livestock and humans. All ACP States have to take some important measures like isolation of domestic fauna from wild beasts, strict quarantine procedures during the importation of live animals, periodic vaccination of domestic animals, and the prohibition of illegal and uncontrolled hunting and export of wild fauna. These measures could alleviate or reduce the threats to the health of livestock and humans, and to the economies of ACP countries.' Prompted by the special article on Epizootics and animal health: the high cost of cutting corners (Spore 94), our tireless correspondent Samuel Zelehe, of Fambella, Ethiopia, has written about the need for great caution. 'Most ACP farmers may not... |
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2014-10-16T09:06:14Z
2014-10-16T09:06:14Z 2002 |
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News Item
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CTA. 2002. Tough livestock measures. Spore 97. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46470 |
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en
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Spore;97
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CTA
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Spore
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