Epizootic diseases

Epizootic animal diseases affect many animals in a large area at the same time, and spread with great rapidity. Epizootic diseases are generally contagious from one animal to another but may be spread by intermediate agents such as forage, straw, insects, fertilizers, contaminated water, movements of game or wild animals and bird migration, or sea seasonal factors. Insect-borne diseases have a higher propensity to become epizootic, especially when the insects are numerous, such as with flies and trypanosomiasis in Africa.

1. Epidemics
2. Animal diseases

1. Sparganosis
2. Foot-and-mouth disease
3. Epizootic lymphangitis
4. African trypanosomiasis

1. Zoonoses
2. Lack of meat and egg production

1. Spread of animal diseases through factory farming
2. Prohibitive cost of animal disease control
3. International movement of animals as factor in animal diseases
4. Insect vectors of animal diseases
5. Infectious diseases in animals
6. Inadequate disinfection of pastureland after disease outbreak
7. Inadequate disinfection measures for animal housing and equipment
8. Inadequate carcass disposal of diseased animals
9. Enzootic diseases
10. Diseases of wild animals
11. Difficulty in identifying carriers of animal diseases
12. Confusion of symptoms in animal diseases
13. Airborne animal diseases

1. Slaughter of diseased animals

1. Studying epizootic diseases

1. Disease