MOVEMENTS IN CONTAGIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES IN 1999 AND 2000

Abstract

In Slovenia and world-wide, the monitoring of animal health status in connection with contagious animal diseases represents a basis for expert analyses needed for planning preventive measures and intervention measures by veterinary services in cases of contagious disease outbreaks. A computerized data collection system was set up and has been successfully used for a number of years in Slovenia. In the past two years, the overall health status of domestic animals in Slovenia may be assessed as favourable, which is clearly the result of the regular implementation of preventive measures, which cover all major diseases and a comparatively large share of the animal population. Strict import control and the supervision of the consistent application of quarantine measures for all imported animals are of major importance as well. Our presentation of animal health status from the viewpoint of contagious diseases is limited to diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans – the zoonoses and the compulsorily notifiable animal diseases; the latter have not been detected in Slovenia in the past two years.