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Transboundary Animal Diseases: Assessment of Socio-economic Impacts and Institutional Responses

Livestock Policy Discussion Paper No. 9

Year of publication 2004

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 46

Author Otte, M. J.

Publisher FAO ;

Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Transboundary animal diseases are a permanent threat for livestock keepers. They have major econimic implications - both through the private and public costs of the outbreak, and through the costs of measures taken at individual, collective and international levels in order to prevent or control infection and disease outbreak.

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