Tollis Maria
Dipartimento di Sanità Alimentare ed Animale, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2006;42(4):446-9.
Protecting animals from infection is a major obligation of every veterinarian's work in order to preserve animal welfare while assuring human health. Highly infectious animal diseases can reduce the performances of food producing animals and may have a great economical impact on many industries. Some animal diseases can be transmitted to humans, and control of these types of diseases, is beneficial to public health. In the wild, animal populations reduced by disease can dramatically affect the ecological balance of an area. Vaccination is one part of an effective health program as it helps to prevent disease and, in most cases, is more cost-effective than treating sick animals. Veterinarians have succeeded in greatly reducing the incidence of important diseases by taking advantage from improved technologies in vaccines production and by planning vaccination schedules based on the different characteristics of available products. Today, veterinarians can recommend and plan to use vaccines designed for a specific herd or flock or class of animals and even for individual treatments.
保护动物免受感染是每位兽医工作的一项主要职责，目的是在确保人类健康的同时维护动物福利。高传染性动物疾病会降低食用动物的生产性能，并可能对许多行业产生重大经济影响。一些动物疾病可传播给人类，控制这类疾病有利于公众健康。在野外，因疾病而减少的动物种群会极大地影响一个地区的生态平衡。疫苗接种是有效健康计划的一部分，因为它有助于预防疾病，而且在大多数情况下，比治疗患病动物更具成本效益。兽医通过利用疫苗生产技术的改进，并根据现有产品的不同特性制定疫苗接种计划，成功地大幅降低了重要疾病的发病率。如今，兽医可以推荐并计划使用专为特定畜群、禽群或动物类别甚至个体治疗设计的疫苗。
