INCIDENCE OF MAJOR ANIMAL DISEASES IN FOR MER CZECHOSLOVAKIA

An account is given in this paper of the occurrence of major animal di seases in recent years in the territory that used to be the CSFR. Afri can horse sickness, equine infectious anaemia, African swine fever, ri nderpest, Newcastle disease, sheep pox, glanders, dourine, Teschen dis ease, bovine, ovine and caprine brucellosis, salmonellal abortion of m are, bovine trichomoniasis, trichinellosis and infectious laryngotrach eitis are diseases which have not occurred in former Czechoslovakia fo r a long period of time. Problems have recently resulted from sporadic outbreaks of classical swine fever in domestic swine and wild boar. T he incidence of Aujeszky's disease was clearly reduced, though few out breaks occurred in sheep. Approximately 22.7 percent of all cattle had been contaminated with tuberculosis in 1961. However, bovine tubercul osis was successfully exterminated seven years later. There is no mand atory notification at present of Maedi and Visna infections, though an tibodies have been recorded from high numbers of blood samples collect ed from sheep and goat. Reports have been received on rabbit haemorrha gic disease in domestic and feral rabbit as well as in hare, but the g eneral situation of contamination in recent time appears to undergo st abilization. Rabies at present is of low incidence among domestic anim als, though a certain increase has been observed in cats. Oral immuniz ation of fox is now being introduced in an attempt to control rabies i n wild-living species. Salmonellae are among the most commonly isolate d bacterial pathogens of infections in man and animals. Fowl salmonell oses, in that context, were found to be of particularly increased inci dence.