title: Role of veterinary public health in the environmental pollution in Nigeria.
abstract: Veterinary public health has a part to play in the environmental pollution control programme. However there is a need to conduct research surveys to draw a line of demarkation where a public health hazard could be considered as well a problem of environmental pollution. In the developed countries some of these diseases have been successfully dealth with by the rigourous enforcement of law pertaining to hygiene, sanitation, quarantine, compulsory vaccination etc. In the developing countries by contrast this has so far not been possible due to the scarcity of funds for control programme and of inadequacy of law enforcement and monitoring agencies.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D002415:Cats; D002417:Cattle; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006041:Goats; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009549:Nigeria; D011634:Public Health; D011818:Rabies / Q000517:prevention & control; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D013552:Swine; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D014730:Veterinary Medicine; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000517:prevention & control*