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M. Ariful Islam
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh.

Transboundary animal diseases (TADs) are greatly contagious epidemic diseases that can spread very rapidly, irrespective of national borders. They cause high rates of death and disease in animals, thereby having serious socio-economic and sometimes public health consequences while constituting a steady threat to the livelihoods of livestock farmers. With the development of technology, livestock production has gained an integral position in the national economy, socioeconomic development, poverty alleviation and nutrition supply for human. Livestock farming is one of the important sources of livelihood to rural peoples in Bangladesh. A healthy livestock is pleasure of any country including Bangladesh. However, rapid trend of globalization has brought upon challenges in maintaining healthy herds of livestock. The emerging infections of foreign origin could spread across national geographical borders and cause devastation in livestock population. As a result, there will be an emergence and spread of new disease in the region which was once free from the disease. Regional and international approaches have to be followed, and the FAO and OIE Global framework-TADs initiative provides the suitable concepts and objectives as well as an organizational framework to link international and regional organizations at the service of their countries to better prevent and control the risks on animal and human health and the economic impact of TADs and emerging animal diseases. In this paper, we have summarized the main diseases of livestock that are transboundary in nature, and sum up the challenges and necessary management strategies in controlling the transboundary diseases.

  Livestock health, Global challenge, Transboundary animal disease (TAD), Global trade, Management strategy
  In Bangladesh
  
  
  Animal Health and Management
  Diseases

To effectively manage the transboundary diseases. 

Transboundary animal diseases are permanent global threat for livestock farmers. TADs are defined as:  “Those that are of significant economic trade and/or food security importance for a considerable number of countries: which can easily spread to other countries and reach epidemic proportions; and where control management, including exclusion requires cooperation between several countries”. These diseases which cause a high morbidity and mortality in susceptible animal populations, constitute a constant threat to the livelihood of livestock farmers. Furthermore, their potential consequences are of such a magnitude that their occurrence may also have a significant detrimental effect on national economies. TADs have the potential to: 
  
♦ Threaten food security through serious loss of animal protein and/or loss of draught animal power for cropping; 
♦ Increase poverty levels particularly in poor communities that have a high incidence dependence on livestock farming for sustenance; 
♦ Cause major production losses for livetsock products such as meat; milk and other dairy products; wooland other fibers and skins and hides, thereby reducing farm incomes. They may also restrict opportunities for upgrading the production potential of local livestock industries by making it difficult to utilise exotic high producing breeds which tend to be very susceptible to the transboundary disease; 
♦ Add significantly to the cost of livestock production through the necessity to apply costly disease control measures; 
♦ Seriously disrupt or inhibit trade in livestock and livestock products either within a country or internationally. Their occurrence may thereby cause major losses in national export income in significant livestock-producing countries; 
♦ Cause public health consequences in the case of those transboundary animal diseases which can be transmitted to humans (i.e. zoonoses); 
♦ Cause environmental consequences through die-offs in wildlife populations in some cases, and; 
♦ Cause pain and suffering for affected animals.  

TADs are permanent threat for livestock keepers. They have major economic implications: both through the private and public costs of the outbreak, and through the cost of the measures taken at individual, collective and international levels in order to prevent or control infection and disease outbreaks. Several challenges confront the strategies to combat TADs (FAO, 2008; Hitchcock et al., 2007). The major ones are presented below:

♦ Requirement of novel systems having capacity of real-time surveillance of emerging diseases. For this, need driven research and service oriented scientific technology are a necessary at regional levels. Research emphasis has to be on specific detection and identification of the infectious agents;

♦ Need for epidemiological methods to assess the dynamics of infections in the self and neighboring countries/regions. These methods should be of real-time utility;

♦ Need for research and development of disease diagnostic reagents those do not need refrigeration (cold chain). More importantly, they should be readily available as well as affordable, for use in pen-side test format; 

♦ There are many diseases for which there is inadequate supply of vaccines or there are no vaccines available. Insufficient or lack of vaccine hampers the disease control programs. Need to build up vaccine banks for stockpiling the important vaccines to implement timely vaccination;

♦ Required availability of cost-effective intervention or disease control strategies. Even if a technology is available, it has to be cheaper to adopt at the point of use;

♦ Need for ensuring public awareness of epidemic animal diseases. Many farmers are unaware of the emerging diseases. As such, unless reported to concerned regional authority, an emerging disease may go unnoticed;

♦ Shortage of government and private funding for research on emerging animal disease problems. Government, as well as industries dealing with animal health, should take initiative and appropriate sponsorship in this regard, and;

♦ Inadequate regulatory standards for safe international trade of livestock and livestock products. Otherwise, there would be a compromised situation in disease control strategies. 

The FAO Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES) Animal Health develops strategies for intervention and improved management. It works to monitor and give early warning and ultimately to prevent animal diseases. The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) is FAO’s corporate centre for the planning and delivery of veterinary assistance to FAO member countries responding to the threat of transboundary animal health crises. The Crisis Management Centre-Animal Health is FAO’s rapid response unit to animal disease emergencies. For example, highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza – bird flu. Since 2004 FAO has been at the forefront of the fight against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) – bird flu – in over 95 countries. FAO has mobilized over US$ 445 million to combat influenza and emerging disease threats through prevention, surveillance, and control.

  Res. Agric. Livest. Fish. Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2016: 121-126; ISSN : P-2409-0603, E-2409-9325
  
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Effective TAD management and control is possible, and has been achieved by several countries in the World including two Asian countries (Japan and Korea), to do so it is highly dependent on national governance effective veterinary services and political support. Improved veterinary services and strong regional networks and have the choice to improve their own leadership and management. It is within the control of a veterinary service to develop a TAD control strategy and operational plans. Furthermore, these might be added to increase the capacity indicators such as: a strong relationship with commercial operators, NGOs and civil society; mechanisms for overcoming the constraints to TAD control posed by decentralisation; innovative financing mechanisms backed up by accountability and transparency; continued development of professionals in public and private service; and strong regional collective efforts. With rapidly increasing globalization, an associated risk of movement of trans-boundary diseases is emerging. Trans-boundary animal diseases represent a serious threat. They reduce production and productivity, disrupt local and national economies, and also threaten human health. This imposes extensive challenges for agricultural scientists on the critically important need to improve technologies in animal production and health in order to make sure the food security, poverty alleviation and to aid economic growth. Considering that livestock rearing constitutes a significant share in the national economy of a developing country like ours, it is imperative to take up disease control initiatives. Measures are required to safeguard the livestock industry from epidemics of infectious diseases and to uphold safe international trade of livestock and their products. In this regard, it is essential to develop scientific and risk-based standards that facilitate the international trade in animal commodities. There is also a need for information on regional movements of animals, birds and poultry products, in order to plan regional strategies of TADs control. 

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