Climate change and animal health in Africa.

摘要: Climate change is expected to have direct and indirect impacts on African livestock. Direct include increased ambient temperature, floods droughts. Indirect are the result of reduced availability water forage changes in environment that promote spread contagious diseases through contact between animals, or survival agent its intermediate host. The distribution prevalence vector-borne may be most significant effect climate change. potential vulnerability livestock industry will depend ability adapt such changes. Enhancing this adaptive capacity presents a practical way coping with Adaptive could by enabling owner cope better animal health problems appropriate policy measures institutional support. Developing an effective sustainable service, associated surveillance emergency preparedness systems disease control prevention programmes perhaps important strategy for dealing many countries.