Updated Estimates of the Costs Associated with Thirty Four Endemic Livestock Diseases in Great Britain: A Note

Bennett, Richard; IJpelaar, Jos

doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2005.tb00126.x

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“…Indeed, animal health often makes up a surprisingly small share of total costs (Matthews 2001). In a rare example of a systematic investigation of 34 endemic diseases in Great Britain, Bennett & IJpelaar (2005) estimated the costs of disease and disease control at nearly 600 million GB pounds. Four diseases (mastitis, lameness, bovine viral diarrhoea and enzootic abortion) were responsible for two-thirds of this.…”

Section: The Role Of Livestock In Pro-poor Development Processesmentioning

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The impacts of livestock diseases and their control on growth and development processes that are pro-poor

Perry¹,

Grace

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Poverty is now at the heart of development discourse; we discuss how it is measured and understood. We next consider the negative and positive impacts of livestock on pro-poor development. Taking a value-chain approach that includes keepers, users and eaters of livestock, we identify diseases that are road blocks on the 'three livestock pathways out of poverty'. We discuss livestock impacts on poverty reduction and review attempts to prioritize the livestock diseases relevant to the poor. We make suggestions for metrics that better measure disease impact and show the benefits of more rigorous evaluation before reviewing recent attempts to measure the importance of disease to the poor. High impact of a disease does not guarantee high benefits from its control; other factors must be taken into consideration, including technical feasibility and political desirability. We conclude by considering how we might better understand and exploit the roles of livestock and improved animal health by posing three speculative questions on the impact of livestock diseases and their control on global poverty: how can understanding livestock and poverty links help disease control?; if global poverty reduction was the aim of livestock disease control, how would it differ from the current model?; and how much of the impact of livestock disease on poverty is due to disease control policy rather than disease itself?

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Section: The Role Of Livestock In Pro-poor Development Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impacts of livestock diseases and their control on growth and development processes that are pro-poor

Perry¹,

Grace

2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

203

156

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“…Liver fluke infection affects farm income especially in terms of poor productivity, reduced milk yield and livers trimmed or condemned at slaughter. In the UK, costs of chronic infection in cattle alone have been estimated at £40 million per year (Bennett and IJpelaar, 2005).…”

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Climate change and infectious disease: helminthological challenges to farmed ruminants in temperate regions

Dijk

Sargison

Kenyon

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In the UK, recent mean temperatures have consistently increased by between 18C and 48C compared to the 30-year monthly averages. Furthermore, all available predictive models for the UK indicate that the climate is likely to change further and feature more extreme weather events and a trend towards wetter, milder winters and hotter, drier summers. These changes will alter the prevalence of endemic diseases spatially and/or temporally and impact on animal health and welfare. Most notable among these endemic parasites are the helminths, which have been shown to be very strongly influenced by both the shortterm weather and climate through effects on their free-living larval stages on pasture. In this review, we examine recent trends in prevalence and epidemiology of key helminth species and consider whether these could be climate-related. We identify likely effects of temperature and rainfall on the free-living stages and some key parasite traits likely to determine parasite abundance under changed climatic conditions. We find clear evidence that climate change, especially elevated temperature, has already changed the overall abundance, seasonality and spatial spread of endemic helminths in the UK. We explore some confounders and alternative explanations for the observed patterns. Finally, we explore the implications of these findings for policy makers and the livestock industry and make some recommendations for future research priorities.

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“…The associated health effects associated with Eimeria infection in broilers intuitively raises concerns about animal welfare. Bennett and Ijpelaar (2005) calculated an animal welfare score for livestock diseases where a higher score corresponded to poorer animal welfare. In their study, coccidiosis in poultry was given a score of 0 to 2, compared to 1 to 49 for infectious bronchitis and 1 to 23 for skeletal problems (Bennett & Ijpelaar, 2005).…”

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Using a One Health approach to assess the impact of parasitic disease in livestock: how does it add value?

Rushton

Bruce

2016

Parasitology

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SUMMARYHuman population increases, with greater food demands, have resulted in a rapid evolution of livestock food systems, leading to changes in land and water use. The scale of global livestock systems mean that changes in animal health status, particularly in parasite levels, have impacts that go beyond farm and sector levels. To quantify the true impact of parasites in livestock, frameworks that look at both resources and services valued in markets and those that have no true market value are required. Mitigating the effects of parasitic disease in livestock will not only increase productivity, but also improve animal welfare and human health, whilst reducing the environmental burden of livestock production systems. To measure these potential benefits, a One Health approach is needed. The paper discusses the types of methods and the data collection tools needed for a more holistic perspective and provides a framework with its application to coccidiosis in poultry. To build a body of knowledge that allows the ranking of parasite diseases in a wider animal health setting, such One Health frameworks need to be applied more frequently and with rigour. The outcome will improve the allocation of resources to critical constraints on parasite management.

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Updated Estimates of the Costs Associated with Thirty Four Endemic Livestock Diseases in Great Britain: A Note

Cited by 158 publications

References 2 publications

The impacts of livestock diseases and their control on growth and development processes that are pro-poor

The impacts of livestock diseases and their control on growth and development processes that are pro-poor

Climate change and infectious disease: helminthological challenges to farmed ruminants in temperate regions

Using a One Health approach to assess the impact of parasitic disease in livestock: how does it add value?

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