Ade Ojeniyi, a Denmark-based Professor of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, has urged the Federal Government to work with experts to prevent the spread of animal diseases to humans.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Grindsted, Denmark on Tuesday that government should use the experts to check Zoo-Anthroponoses.
Zoo-Anthroponoses are animal diseases transmitted to humans.
“Zooanthroponoses constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality across the world, and particularly in Nigeria where most, unfortunately, they are often neglected by primary healthcare managers and by policymakers.
Ojeniyi said that the anthropozoonotic diseases which are endemic in the country are anthrax, brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, rabies, Lassa fever, trypanosomiasis, and echinococcosis.
He said that the risk posed to the country`s population by these neglected diseases was enormous.
“ Despite the fact that these risk factors associated with their occurrence have been identified and their prophylaxis advocated, the control of these zoo-anthroponoses in the country is virtually non-existent, while knowledge of their impact on human health is at best rudimentary,” he said.
He said that one of checking the spread of water-borne diseases from animals was to keep the cows in places where they could grow and get energy.
“ There is no human health without animal health. The government should ensure that animals do not roam about. By roaming about, it drills their survival, energy, vitality, and all that they should have used to produce milk and beef.
“ They should be collected in places where vegetation is very conge nous. They should be kept in places where they should grow and get energy, “ he said.
He said that when the animals roam, they pollute rivers, Creeks, lakes and the environment. When the environment is polluted, it makes it easy for infections to thrive,” Ojeniyi said.
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He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Grindsted, Denmark on Tuesday that government should use the experts to check Zoo-Anthroponoses.
Zoo-Anthroponoses are animal diseases transmitted to humans.
“Zooanthroponoses constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality across the world, and particularly in Nigeria where most, unfortunately, they are often neglected by primary healthcare managers and by policymakers.
Ojeniyi said that the anthropozoonotic diseases which are endemic in the country are anthrax, brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, rabies, Lassa fever, trypanosomiasis, and echinococcosis.
He said that the risk posed to the country`s population by these neglected diseases was enormous.
“ Despite the fact that these risk factors associated with their occurrence have been identified and their prophylaxis advocated, the control of these zoo-anthroponoses in the country is virtually non-existent, while knowledge of their impact on human health is at best rudimentary,” he said.
He said that one of checking the spread of water-borne diseases from animals was to keep the cows in places where they could grow and get energy.
“ There is no human health without animal health. The government should ensure that animals do not roam about. By roaming about, it drills their survival, energy, vitality, and all that they should have used to produce milk and beef.
“ They should be collected in places where vegetation is very conge nous. They should be kept in places where they should grow and get energy, “ he said.
He said that when the animals roam, they pollute rivers, Creeks, lakes and the environment. When the environment is polluted, it makes it easy for infections to thrive,” Ojeniyi said.
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