Some time in the next 18 months, the UN Food and agriculture organisation jointly with the World Organisation for Animal Health and other partners will officially declare one of the most devastating animal diseases known to man, rinderpest, as eradicated.

Published by Efsa and Ecdc gives an overview of zoonotic infections shared in nature by humans and animals and disease outbreaks caused by consuming contaminated food. The report shows that the number of human cases of the three most reported zoonotic infections was lower in 2008 than in 2007.

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