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The health of animals is vitally important to people's lives. Here are some effects of sickness and disease in animals;

• increase the likelihood of poverty for individual farmers and their families,
• threaten food security locally and sometimes more widely,
• negatively affect local economies because people have less money to spend, or local industries start to fail,
• impact the availability of draught power for cropping,
• can be difficult and costly to treat or cure, and to control,
• reduce production of animal products such as milk, eggs, meat,
• can be a direct risk to human health,
• increase the risk of follow-on effects from all of the above.