World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 169: Joint FAO/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Zoonoses

By Rad M. Mendy

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 169: Joint FAO/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Zoonoses
Author:	Rad M. Mendy
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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INTRODUCTION In December 1950 a Joint WHOIFAO Expert Group on Zoonoses met to formulate recommendations on zoonoses for the guidance of WHO and FAO. Their report: published in 1951, was considered by the present Committee in the light of advances made in the zoonoses dealt with in detail-namely, bovine tuberculosis, Q fever, anthrax, psittacosis and hydatidosis. Also, the Committee was concerned with several additional zoonoses of importance, including salmonellosis and leptospirosis, and other related problems of concern to the Member Governments of WHO and FAO. Three more major zoonoses, plague? rabie~a,n~d brucellosis, have been dealt with by other expert committees of WHO and FAO, and are not considered in this report.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Definition of zoonoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 2 . Prevention. control and eradication . . . . . . . . . . . .6 3 . The Pan American Zoonoses Center . . . . . . . . . . . 8. 4 . Salmonellosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 5 . Leptospirosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 6 . Tuberculosis of animal origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 7 . Anthrax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 8 . Psittacosis-ornithosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 9 . Q fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 10. Arthropod-borne viral encephalitides . . . . . . . . . . . .41 11. Hydatidosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 12 . Animal influenza and its possible relationship to human influenza 47 13. Other zoonoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 13.1 Toxoplasmosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 13.2 Listeriosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 13.3 Cutaneous and visceral larva migrans . . . . . . . . . 50 13.4 Dermatomycoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 13.5 Trematode infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 13.6 Tularaemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 13.7 Cat-scratch disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 14. Ecology of wild animal reservoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 15 . Animal orphan viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 16. Emerging zoonoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Annex 1. A list of zoonoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Annex 2 . Veterinary public health activity at various levels of government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Annex 3 . Reporting of zoonoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Annex 4 . Salmonellosis : pasteurization of raw egg products . . 65 Annex 5 . The functions of international and national salmonella centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66