World Animal Health Problems

Abstract

In recent years a number of countries, among them Britain, Sweden and the United States of America, have made serious attempts to assess disease in terms of understandable economic figures. Often-quoted statements are made to the effect that internal parasitism in livestock costs the U.S. 400 million dollars annually; or that, if we could reduce the incidence of disease by 50 percent we would increase the output of animal protein by 25 percent; or that losses caused by disease in developing countries may range between 30 and 40 percent of total livestock production.

The true cost of disease in hard cash terms is incalculable; Every country in the world loses incredible amount of money through disease losses in domestic livestock.