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Animal health surveillance aims to facilitate early detection of outbreaks, disease control, animal welfare management, protection of public health, planning and decision-making. It is a continuous process of collecting key information to produce surveillance insights that are acted upon. The ongoing gathering of information is mostly based on the reporting of signs of disease by those close to animals such as animal owners, animal carers, animal health practitioners and diagnosticians. This is often complemented by regular diagnostic testing, in one form or another, to determine the health status of a particular animal population. This surveillance approach faces growing challenges in ma...
How do animals impact our lives? Recently, there has been more attention given to the healing benefits of interacting with various species of animals. Science is beginning to explain that our relationships with animals and their environment possess great healing potential, but could research also recognize that others benefit from it? Would our interactions with animals also impact their quality of life, as well? Human-animal bonds are mutually beneficial relationships that hold the potential to nurture One Health for People as well as the animals involved. Health in this context includes not only to the physical benefit, but the mental, emotional, and social well-being of both people and animals.
This book reviews the latest risk-based techniques to protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at and within national borders.