What is the Domestic Animal Health Connection?
Wildlife and agriculture interact in a wide variety of ways that facilitate the movement of infectious disease agents between the animals of both resources. Further, the importance of these agriculture-wildlife interfaces for disease emergence and resurgence will continue to increase as an outcome of the increasing globalization of society, landscape transformation associated with human population growth and as a potential linkage for agroterrorism. Thus, there is a mutual need by wildlife and agriculture interests to have timely access to sound information about diseases within domestic animal populations and wild fauna. This need extends beyond the presence and eruption of disease to the ecology of diseases that are of concern. The development of informed risk assessments and effective strategies for protecting agriculture and wildlife, alike, from disease is dependent upon this basic information. Wildlife-domestic animal disease interfaces occur across a broad spectrum of species an
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