<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The worldwide trade in non-pathogen-free animals and their products has led to irreparable global spread of animal infections. Among factors supporting this spread belong: countless pathogen species able to reproduce and spread horizontally and to the next generations causing immense number of sufferings and premature deaths of affected animals and humans; increasing long distance export of animals and their products due also to not requiring by relevant international organizations healthy and innocuous pathogen-free commodities; illegal export/import of animals and their products; deficiencies related to diagnosis of pathogen-free status; inability to discover all imported infections, to control and eradicate them; international sanitary certificates without pathogen-free guarantee; inability of public animal health services to control on the spot the international trade with animal commodities; minimum of successfull animal infection eradications and absence of information about global spreading of pathogens to alert the countries in question. Huge daily flow of exported non-pathogen-free animal commodities conduces to permanent deterioration of global epizootiological situation. Irreparable man-made global spread of invisible pathogens with continuous multiplying sanitary, economic, social and ecological consequences represents a worldwide ecological disaster contributing to shortening life on Earth and survival of species, including self-destruction of humankind. Extraordinary existential significance requires international control of epizootics to be dealt with at the highest decision-making level of the United Nations Organization.</p></abstract>

The worldwide trade in non-pathogen-free animals and their products has led to irreparable global spread of animal infections. Among factors supporting this spread belong: countless pathogen species able to reproduce and spread horizontally and to the next generations causing immense number of sufferings and premature deaths of affected animals and humans; increasing long distance export of animals and their products due also to not requiring by relevant international organizations healthy and innocuous pathogen-free commodities; illegal export/import of animals and their products; deficiencies related to diagnosis of pathogen-free status; inability to discover all imported infections, to control and eradicate them; international sanitary certificates without pathogen-free guarantee; inability of public animal health services to control on the spot the international trade with animal commodities; minimum of successfull animal infection eradications and absence of information about global spreading of pathogens to alert the countries in question. Huge daily flow of exported non-pathogen-free animal commodities conduces to permanent deterioration of global epizootiological situation. Irreparable man-made global spread of invisible pathogens with continuous multiplying sanitary, economic, social and ecological consequences represents a worldwide ecological disaster contributing to shortening life on Earth and survival of species, including self-destruction of humankind. Extraordinary existential significance requires international control of epizootics to be dealt with at the highest decision-making level of the United Nations Organization.

Irreparable Global Spread of Pathogens and International Trade – Facilitating Factors

Department of Animal Science and Food Processing in Tropics and Subtropics, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life sciences Prague, Czech Republic, Former Chief, Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

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The worldwide trade in non-pathogen-free animals and their products has led to irreparable global spread of animal infections. Among factors supporting this...

Irreparable Global Spread of Pathogens and International Trade – Facilitating Factors

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Page range: 37 - 43

Received: Sep 02, 2014

Accepted: Jun 19, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ats-2015-0006

Keywords
diagnosis deficiency, planet ecological disaster, humankind survival, global bioterror, global pathogenic microflora, eradications, innocuous commodity, pathogen-free status, sanitary certificates

© Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Irreparable Global Spread of Pathogens and International Trade – Facilitating Factors

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Page range: 37 - 43

Received: Sep 02, 2014

Accepted: Jun 19, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ats-2015-0006

Keywordsdiagnosis deficiency, planet ecological disaster, humankind survival, global bioterror, global pathogenic microflora, eradications, innocuous commodity, pathogen-free status, sanitary certificates

© Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
diagnosis deficiency, planet ecological disaster, humankind survival, global bioterror, global pathogenic microflora, eradications, innocuous commodity, pathogen-free status, sanitary certificates