Vaccination services for people and livestock often fail to achieve sufficient coverages in Africa's remote rural settings because of financial, logistic, and service delivery constraints. In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadi...
Schelling, E.
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Bechir, M.
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Ahmed, M.A.
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Wyss, K.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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Zinsstag, Jakob
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[Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad]
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Human and animal vaccination delivery to remote nomadic families, Chad
The general role of veterinary epidemiology and economics to national animal-disease control throughout the world is considered for the four main groupings of animal diseases: zoonotic, food-borne, endemic and epidemic diseases. This is done by considering how veterinary epidemiology and economic...
Perry, Brian D.
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McDermott, John J.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Can epidemiology and economics make a meaningful contribution to national animal-disease control?]
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Can epidemiology and economics make a meaningful contribution to national animal-disease control?
Animal diseases have a major impact on crop-livestock systems in West Africa. The productivity of all crop-livestock systems is limited both by the direct effects of overt disease and by strategies that are adopted to mitigate disease risk. Epidemic diseases require substantial expenditures to li...
McDermott, John J.
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Richard, D.
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Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Incidence of animal diseases and their current and future impacts on crop-livestock systems in West africa]
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Incidence of animal diseases and their current and future impacts on crop-livestock systems in West africa