75% of human diseases in the last 10 years come from animals

This type of pathology becomes responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in the world. One of them is rabies, which annually receives about 25,000 deaths a year in Africa, most of which are children.

75% of the diseases that have affected the population in the last 10 years are zoonotic, that is to say, they are transmitted from the body. animal to human and vice versa, according to Animal Health Europe, the European Association of Veterinary Drugs Industry, on the occasion of World Zoonoses Day which commemorates how in 1885 Louis Pasteur administered the first rabies vaccine.

This type of pathology happens to be responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year worldwide, according to MSD Animal Health, an entity belonging to the European badociation. Thus, they consider that prevention through animal and human vaccination "must be understood as an essential aspect to be able to ensure the health of the society in which they live," the authors of the report said. article.

In this sense, leptospirosis with rabies, is one of the zoonoses "of greater severity and with greater contagion at the global level", as they specified. In particular, it is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium of the genus "Leptospira". The most common symptoms are fever, dehydration, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy and jaundice, and yellow mucous membranes; it can also cause kidney failure and liver failure and even death.

Therefore, vaccinating the animal against four serogroups of the most described disease in Europe, is one of the tips offered by MSD Animal Health to protect animals from this pathology. It is bound to avoid contact with the urine of infected animals, as well as to prevent the animal from drinking or swimming in rivers, lakes, muddy or stagnant areas.

Rabies is another example of zoonotic immunization. This disease is accused each year of about 25,000 deaths a year in Africa, most of them being children, reported by MSD Animal Health.

85% of farms with reproductive problems are positive for leptospira

Leptospirosis affects not only domestic animals and the people who live with them, because with reference to production animals. For example, in pigs, this disease leads to a reduction in the total number of piglets born, the number of live births and the decrease in weaned piglets.

The disease causes an increase in the number of piglets born weak and not very viable; it reduces the birth rate and the average birth weight and, in sows, the interval between weaning and first service may increase. In addition, it increases the risk of transfer to people who are in contact with these animals throughout the production chain, she says.

According to a study by MSD Animal Health, published at the last international pork industry conference (ESPHM 2018), 85 percent of farms with reproductive problems are positive for Leptospira. Prevention through vaccination is the main way to prevent this disease and other animal diseases.