Livestock are domesticated animals intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food or fibre, or for their labour. Livestock include pigs, cattle, goats, deer, sheep, yaks and poultry. The type of livestock reared varies worldwide and depends on factors such as climate, consumer demand, native animals, local traditions, and land type.
Livestock may be raised for subsistence food or for profit. Raising animals (animal husbandry) is an important component of modern agriculture. It has been practiced in many societies, since the transition to farming from hunter-gather lifestyles.
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Animal Diseases : University of Nebraska - Articles on specific livestock diseases.
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Anthrax - Clinical signs that can be found in sheep, goats, cattle and humans. Includes treatments that are described.
Brucellosis Fact Sheet - Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can be passed from animals, such as cows, sheep and goats, to humans.
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Cheesy Gland - Causes, spread, symptoms, and prevention of CLA in sheep and goats.
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Illini Biosecurity Website - Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy University of Illinois Extension and Illinois TRAILL's information on biosecurity and livestock diseases that are in the news.
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Disease (FMD), Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy University of Illinois Extension and Illinois TRAILL's information on biosecurity and livestock diseases that are in the news. These diseases include Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy (BSE), Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Johnes. ]
Johne's disease - Information about bovine (cattle) and ovine (goat) Johne's disease and its control in New South Wales.
Johne's Disease or Paratuberculosis - Origin, diagnosis and eradication.
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Prion Diseases - Information about scrapie and other diseases in which a protein is the infective agent.
Q Fever Pages - Links to information about Q fever, a bacterial zoonosis, disease capable of being transmitted from animals to people caused by coxiella burnetii, a rickettsial organism.
Rift Valley Fever - A mosquito-borne viral disease leading to serious economic losses in livestock, particularly sheep. Transmission, symptoms, related links.
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Screw-worm Fly - Serious threat to pastoral industries, occurs in almost all tropical countries except Australia. Its life cycle and potential impact on cattle, sheep, dogs and humans are described.
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