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World Zoonoses Day
- 09 Jul 2024
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On the eve of World Zoonoses Day, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) organized an interactive session.
- It is celebrated in honour of Louis Pasteur, who administered the first successful rabies vaccine, a zoonotic disease, on 6th July 1885.
- Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can transfer between animals and humans, such as rabies, anthrax, influenza (H1N1 and H5N1), Nipah, Covid-19, brucellosis, and tuberculosis.
- Many non-zoonotic diseases affect livestock without posing a risk to human health.
- Examples include Foot & Mouth Disease, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), Lumpy Skin Disease, Classical Swine Fever, and Ranikhet Disease.
- About 60% of all diseases are zoonotic, and 70% of emerging infections originate from animals.
- Prevention and control of zoonotic diseases rely on vaccination, good hygiene, animal husbandry practices, and vector control through the One Health approach.
- To mitigate the risk, the DAHD has launched a nationwide campaign for Brucella vaccination of bovine calves under National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP) and undertaken Rabies Vaccination under Assistance to States for Control of Animal Diseases (ASCAD).
- India accounts 11% and 18% of the global livestock and poultry population, respectively. Additionally, India is the largest producer of milk and the second-largest producer of eggs globally.
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