title: Human benefits of animal interventions for zoonosis control.
abstract: Although industrialized countries have been able to contain recent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, many resource-limited and transitioning countries have not been able to react adequately. The key for controlling zoonoses such as rabies, echinococcosis, and brucellosis is to focus on the animal reservoir. In this respect, ministries of health question whether the public health sector really benefits from interventions for livestock. Cross-sectoral assessments of interventions such as mass vaccination for brucellosis in Mongolia or vaccination of dogs for rabies in Chad consider human and animal health sectors from a societal economic perspective. Combining the total societal benefits, the intervention in the animal sector saves money and provides the economic argument, which opens new approaches for the control of zoonoses in resource-limited countries through contributions from multiple sectors.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. jakob.zinsstag@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Jakob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zinsstag
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schelling
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: Bassirou
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bonfoh
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Savigny
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*; D002007:Brucellosis, Bovine / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D002596:Chad; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003906:Developing Countries; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D008986:Mongolia; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011818:Rabies / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D012418:Ruminants / Q000382:microbiology; D014611:Vaccination / Q000662:veterinary*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D001428:Bacterial Vaccines; D011819:Rabies Vaccines