Control and eradication of animal diseases in New Zealand

Rm, Davidson

doi:10.1080/00480169.2002.36259

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“…The distinction is important. For example despite the claim that Echinococcus granulosus appears to have been "eradicated" from New Zealand (Davidson, 2002), it has actually been eliminated as on-going measures are required to maintain the country free from the parasite. If global eradication had been achieved then these measures would no longer be necessary.…”

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One world health: Socioeconomic burden and parasitic disease control priorities

Torgerson¹

2013

Veterinary Parasitology

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Parasitic diseases present a considerable socio-economic impact to society. Zoonotic parasites can result in a considerable burden of disease in humans and substantive economic losses to livestock populations. Ameliorating the effects of these diseases may consist of attempts at eradicating specific diseases at a global level, eliminating them at a national or local level or controlling the disease to minimise incidence. Alternatively with some parasitic zoonoses it may only be possible to treat human and animal cases as they arise. The choice of approach will be determined by the potential effectiveness of a disease control programme, its cost and the cost effectiveness or cost benefit of undertaking the intervention. Furthermore human disease burden is being increasingly measured by egalitarian nonfinancial measures which do not sit comfortably with measurements of economic costs in livestock.This adds additional challenges to assessing socio-economic burdens of zoonotic diseases. Using examples from the group of neglected zoonotic diseases, information regarding the socio-economic effects of these diseases are reviewed and the use of this information in decision making with regard to control and treatment of these diseases is discussed.

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One world health: Socioeconomic burden and parasitic disease control priorities

Torgerson¹

2013

Veterinary Parasitology

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“…The Rev1 vaccine has been shown to be effective at reducing the prevalence of B. melitensis (the most common source of human infection globally) among small ruminants in Kuwait, Tajikistan and elsewhere (Al-Khalaf et al, 1992;D ıaz-Aparicio et al, 2004;Minas et al, 2004;Pappas et al, 2006;Ward et al, 2012). Similarly, livestock vaccination was shown to improve human incidence in Greece and New Zealand (Davidson, 2002;Minas et al, 2004;Jelastopulu et al, 2008). A mathematical modelling study in Mongolia also showed that reducing livestock brucellosis transmission by~50% would result in an overall net benefit to society in the form of improved human and agricultural health (Roth et al, 2003).…”

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Human Brucellosis Trends: Re‐emergence and Prospects for Control Using a One Health Approach in Azerbaijan (1983–2009)

Kracalik

Abdullayev²,

Asadov³

et al. 2015

Zoonoses and Public Health

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Brucellosis is one of the most common and widely spread zoonotic diseases in the world. Control of the disease in humans is dependent upon limiting the infection in animals through surveillance and vaccination. Given the dramatic economic and political changes that have taken place in the former Soviet Union, which have limited control, evaluating the status of human brucellosis in former Soviet states is crucial. We assessed annual spatial and temporal trends in the epidemiology of human brucellosis in Azerbaijan, 1983-2009, in conjunction with data from a livestock surveillance and control programme (2002-2009). To analyse trends, we used a combination of segmented regression and spatial analysis. From 1983 to 2009, a total of 11 233 cases of human brucellosis were reported. Up to the mid-1990s, the incidence of human brucellosis showed a pattern of re-emergence, increasing by 25% annually, on average. Following Soviet governance, the incidence rates peaked, increasing by 1.8% annually, on average, and subsequently decreasing by 5% annually, on average, during the period 2002-2009. Despite recent national declines in human incidence, we identified geographic changes in the case distribution characterized by a geographic expansion and an increasing incidence among districts clustered in the south-east, compared to a decrease of elsewhere in the country. Males were consistently, disproportionately afflicted (71%) and incidence was highest in the 15 to 19 age group (18.1 cases/100 000). During the period 2002-2009, >10 million small ruminants were vaccinated with Rev1. Our findings highlight the improving prospects for human brucellosis control following livestock vaccination; however, the disease appears to be re-emerging in south-eastern Azerbaijan. Sustained one health measures are needed to address changing patterns of brucellosis in Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.

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“…In 1945, legislation was enacted in New Zealand that required compulsory bTB testing for all dairy herds, commonly known as town milk supply herds . Negotiations between farmers’ organisations and the Department of Agriculture meant its implementation was delayed until 1961 (Davidson ). In the meantime, town milk supply herds were tested on a voluntary basis with worrying results: 10 per cent of cattle were testing positive and farmers’ confidence in the bTB test had been ‘shattered’.…”

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Navigating veterinary borderlands: ‘heiferlumps’, epidemiological boundaries and the control of animal disease in New Zealand

Enticott

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper analyses the importance of boundaries in the control of animal disease. On the one hand, establishing geographical and disciplinary boundaries is seen to be vital to the control of disease. In practice, however, boundaries are unstable, disrupted and frequently transgressed. Disease and its diagnosis vary in space, while disciplinary boundaries between epidemiology, laboratory and clinical practices can collapse from the noncoherence of disease. Drawing on the concepts of 'disciplinary borderlands' and fluid space, the paper analyses how uncertainty over disease diagnosis establishes a veterinary borderland in which disciplines are merged and combined and difficult to tell apart. From archival research and interviews of key informants, the paper describes the history of the control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in New Zealand. Focusing on disputes around the diagnosis of bTB in the West Coast region, the paper shows how the problem of non-specificity (locally referred to as 'heiferlumps') undermined attempts to impose a universal version of disease and control policy. In this new veterinary borderland, attempts to manage the non-coherence of disease shifted from denial to viewing disease as a moral problem in which farmers' own knowledges were central to the definition and management of disease. In doing so, boundaries between traditional disease disciplines were broken down, and new hybrid veterinary practices established to create geographically variable disease control rules and procedures. In conclusion, the paper considers the wider consequences for the management of animal disease arising from greater farmer involvement in animal disease management.

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Control and eradication of animal diseases in New Zealand

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

One world health: Socioeconomic burden and parasitic disease control priorities

One world health: Socioeconomic burden and parasitic disease control priorities

Human Brucellosis Trends: Re‐emergence and Prospects for Control Using a One Health Approach in Azerbaijan (1983–2009)

Navigating veterinary borderlands: ‘heiferlumps’, epidemiological boundaries and the control of animal disease in New Zealand

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