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    Zoonotic diseases have significant negative impacts on both human health and the economy. They cause serious illness and mortality in humans, resulting in lost work capacity, earnings, and increased healthcare costs. Zoonoses also undermine animal health and productivity, reducing food production and the output of draft animals. This contributes to human malnutrition. Additionally, zoonotic diseases drain resources through high control costs in animals and lost export markets for animal products due to trade restrictions. The financial impacts can be severe, such as India losing an estimated 900 crores rupees due to a 1994 plague outbreak.

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    Zoonotic diseases have significant negative impacts on both human health and the economy. They cause serious illness and mortality in humans, resulting in lost work capacity, earnings, and increased healthcare costs. Zoonoses also undermine animal health and productivity, reducing food production and the output of draft animals. This contributes to human malnutrition. Additionally, zoonotic diseases drain resources through high control costs in animals and lost export markets for animal products due to trade restrictions. The financial impacts can be severe, such as India losing an estimated 900 crores rupees due to a 1994 plague outbreak.

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    Zoonotic diseases have significant negative impacts on both human health and the economy. They cause serious illness and mortality in humans, resulting in lost work capacity, earnings, and increased healthcare costs. Zoonoses also undermine animal health and productivity, reducing food production and the output of draft animals. This contributes to human malnutrition. Additionally, zoonotic diseases drain resources through high control costs in animals and lost export markets for animal products due to trade restrictions. The financial impacts can be severe, such as India losing an estimated 900 crores rupees due to a 1994 plague outbreak.

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    Zoonotic diseases have significant negative impacts on both human health and the economy. They cause serious illness and mortality in humans, resulting in lost work capacity, earnings, and increased healthcare costs. Zoonoses also undermine animal health and productivity, reducing food production and the output of draft animals. This contributes to human malnutrition. Additionally, zoonotic diseases drain resources through high control costs in animals and lost export markets for animal products due to trade restrictions. The financial impacts can be severe, such as India losing an estimated 900 crores rupees due to a 1994 plague outbreak.

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    Impact of zoonoses on human health and

    economy

    Dr. R. S. Tayde
    Assistant Professor
    Dept. of VPH & Epidemiology
    Co.V.Sc. & A.H., Mhow, Indore (M.P.)
    Impact of zoonoses on human health and economy

    • Socioeconomic losses from zoonoses are difficult to quantify completely


    (as with other human diseases ) because the cost of lives and sufferings
    cannot be measured.

    • Many of the zoonotic diseases cause serious illness and high mortality in
    man.

    • The effects of febrile illness include:


    • loss of work capacity
    • loss of earnings
    • clinical complications
    • interference with patterns of family life and
    • potential malnutrition from increased metabolic demands in
    people who are already poorly nourished.
    • In addition to clinical effects, the presence of zoonoses in a community has
    economic repercussions as a result of the need to provide health services
    e.g., hospital, diagnostic and other laboratory services.

    • The loss of human efficiency and man hours together with medical costs
    of control in zoonotic diseases affect the national economy severely.

    • Zoonoses also undermine animal health and productivity, reducing the


    production of food (meat, milk, egg and wool) as well as the work output
    of draught animals.

    • This contributes to human malnutrition and to lowering the resistance of


    large number of people.
    E.g., In presence of immunosupressive diseases such as AIDS, zoonotic
    pathogens such as Cryptosporidiosis and bovine tuberculosis. might
    assume more devastating nature and spread more rapidly
    • Livestock diseases, especially zoonotic diseases have direct consequences
    for national economic development.
    • They reduce the available supply of needed food, especially high protein
    food.
    • Feedstocks of grain, grain by-products and animal by-products are wasted
    when the animals consuming them die.
    • E.g., Foot and mouth disease (FMD) contributes to the problem of human
    malnutrition in a big way.
    • The presence of animal diseases in an area may prevent human
    habitation.
    • The economic costs incurred in the control of zoonotic diseases in
    animals are often huge and are additional to medical costs and losses in
    human work.
    • The additional expense arises from surveillance mechanisms for detecting
    animal reservoirs, diagnosis of animal diseases, quarantine of animals,
    restriction on animal transport, inspection of meat and milk and
    condemnation of animal products.
    • The impairment of animal production by diseases force many countries to
    import milk, meat, leather, wool and other animal products. This drains
    foreign exchange needed for development.

    • On the other hand, countries which have animals and animal products that
    could be exported to earn foreign exchange may find their markets
    closed or restricted because of endemic infections including several
    zoonoses.
    • E.g., The panic of 1994 plague outbreak in India.The outbreak had resulted
    in ban for air travel to the country, which had severe repercussions on
    tourism industry and in turn economy. The financial loss to the nation due
    to disruption of travel and trade was estimated as 900 crores rupees.

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