The Epidemiology of Zoonoses in the Philippines

Abstract

The zoonoses are major infectious diseases so tooth man and lower animals in the Philippines, Of at least 181 diseases known to be zoonotic, 63% have been reported in the Philippines. In this article, the epidemiology and approaches toward control of 73 of these diseases are discussed. Epidemiologicaliy, the zoonoses may be classified on the characteristics of the etiological agents, human hosts, lower animal hosts, and vectors interacting in the environment to maintain the occurrence of these diseases. Prevention and control of the zoonoses must he made an their epidemiological cycles. Plague is the only zoonotic disease that has been eradicated from the Philippines; trichinosis has never been established; the eradication of rabies, Newcastle disease, brucellosis, and taeniasis is presently both feasible and necessary.