Translations:Pelsa Facilitator Manual/51/en

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.