AGRI 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Zoonosis, Biocontainment, One Health
27 Feb 2019
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Pigs raised with limited to no biosecurity can carry a significant number of zoonotic diseases. Pigs are so prone to disease and since we are so close to them in biology we are likely to get their disease. Believed that religious objection to pork in judaism and islam due to high incidence of disease in pigs. High biocontainment and disease control in modern pig production has made pork as sa as other meats. Few worry about worms in their pork chop. Increase in viruses with high intensity pork production. Viruses are a small fraction of the approx. 1,400 species of pathogen that impact human health. The majority of newly recognized human pathogens over the past few decades have bee viruses. Rna viruses - of most concern in one health realm. The majority of rna viruses that infect humans are of zoonotic origin (89% of to. Rna viruses affecting humans are originally from animals)
