Message of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of IPB in the Framework of World Zoonoses Day 6 July 2017

WORLD ZOONOSES DAY

Message of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of IPB in the Framework of World Zoonoses Day 6 July 2017

World Zoonoses Day was commemorated on 6 July each year which aimed to emphasize and raise the awareness of the zoonotic issues among the communities, as well as to train or educate how to take the appropriate actions.

Dean of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FKH), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Prof.Dr. Srihadi Agung Priyono, explained, in general the zoonosis or zoonotic disease was defined as a disease that could be transmitted from the animal to the human or vice versa. The zoonotic diseases could be transmitted from the living animals (for example through the bites and the saliva, the "aerosols", the animal feces, the fluid that came out of an animal or an infected place, or through the intermediaries of insects (like the mosquitoes), or through the good animal products that were eaten/drunk by the humans (the meat, the eggs, the milk, including the fish and the "seafood"), or the uneaten products (for example the skin, the horns, the feathers).

Currently, more than 200 known zoonotic diseases in the world had been known. The wildlife was the main source of some of the zoonotic diseases currently infecting both the humans and the domestic animals (which in turn could also be transmitted to the humans and the other animals). More than 60 percent of the infectious diseases in the humans were the zoonotic diseases, or it could be said to come from the animals, as well as 75 percent of the newly emerging infectious diseases in the human categorized the zoonotic diseases.

Generally, the zoonotic disease could be prevented. The precautions that could be done included:

· Maintaining the cleanliness of the house and the environment, and controlling the insects (the mosquitoes, the flies, the cockroaches);

· Maintaining the personal hygiene and hands, such as washing hands with the soap after the urination and the defecating, holding animals, dirty materials, soil, and raw foodstuffs;

· Handling food with clean and well. Shopping for the meat, the milk, and the eggs at an official kiosk or shop;

· If you had the pet animals, the animals were regularly vaccinated and treated properly. The animal waste was handled properly. If the animal was sick, immediately taken to the Veterinarian;

· If farming, the cage and animal hygiene were maintained, the animal health was maintained. If the cattle was sick, immediately consulted to the Office in charge of the animal health, the Animal Health Center (Puskeswan), or the Veterinarian.

“Let us together raise the awareness and the vigilance against the zoonotic diseases in order to realize the healthy family, community, animal and environment,” said Prof. Srihadi.***