The Failing Structures of Animal Health Services: Room for Improvement

he current avian flu situation has clearly demonstrated what we already knew: that animal health service structures are malfunctioning in most parts of the developing world. We have seen that flu sending the animal health system to the top of many Governments’ agenda. However, if Governments and don...

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Main Author: Nellemann Kryger, Karsten
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/58464
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Summary:he current avian flu situation has clearly demonstrated what we already knew: that animal health service structures are malfunctioning in most parts of the developing world. We have seen that flu sending the animal health system to the top of many Governments’ agenda. However, if Governments and donors are primarily preoccupied with containing the risk of a human pandemic there are serious doubts that the results of the commotion around avian flu will significantly improve smallholder poultry producers’ access to animal health services. If Governments and donors are primarily preoccupied with containing the risk of a human pandemic there are serious doubts that the results of the commotion around avian flu will significantly improve smallholder poultry producers’ access to animal healt