Fighting transboundary animal diseases: a battle for global food security
William Wong and Mark SchippDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
GPO Box 858, Canberra
ACT 2601, Australia
Tel: +61 2 6272 4644
Email: ocvo@daff.gov.au
Microbiology Australia 34(1) 4-7 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA13003
Published: 20 March 2013
Abstract
Previously our team discussed the role of One Health in understanding and controlling zoonotic diseases in Australia 1 . While zoonotic diseases threaten the well-being of animals and humans and/or public confidence in food safety directly, diseases that have serious negative impact on food security through hampering various stages of our food system (from farm to fork) are also central to the role of One Health in this century. Eradication or control of these animal diseases can help ensure global food security. Interestingly many of these diseases have been around for decades or centuries and are not necessarily zoonotic by nature, e.g. foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, classical swine fever, Rift Valley fever, avian influenza, Newcastle disease, bluetongue and others 2 . They are commonly referred to as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) nowadays.
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