Год выпуска: 2015 Автор: Isaac Makundi,Maria Johansen and Helena Ngowi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783659676581
Описание
The pig population in urban and town areas has recently expanded due to increasing pork consumption. In Tanzania, the increased pork consumption has contributed to the raise of pig keeping households and transportation of live pigs from rural to urban areas in fetch for good market. The transportation of infected pigs plays significant role in transmission of infections into areas where there was no history of such infections. Some diseases such as Taenia solium Cysticercosis are known to be maintained in low socio-economic, unhygienic environment and poor pig rearing husbandry practices and therefore the possibility of transfer and subsequent establishment of these infections in urban areas is absolutely higher. Similarly, other highly infectious diseases such as African swine fever are spread very fast through transportation of live infected pigs. Therefore effective quarantine, restriction movement and slaughter of infected pigs may continue to be the only possible control measures...
