The fight against animal diseases in France

The fight against animal diseases is a priority and is carried out thanks to the intervention of the State through concerted, collective, systematic actions and financial, technical and human resources. Livestock represents an important part of the value of agricultural production. Animal diseases, through the direct losses (sick animals, mortality) or indirect (increase in the cost of production, obstacles to commercial exchanges) that they generate, reduce the value of these productions and can have serious socio-economic and policies. Animal health is also an important factor in the competitiveness of livestock farming and therefore a challenge for France, which is export-oriented and developing high added value production. In addition, certain diseases, as zoonoses (diseases that are naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans and vice versa), have a direct impact on public health. The rules relating to transmissible animal diseases are harmonized at European Union ...