Poultry Diseases as Public Health Problems
- 1 January 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Public Health Reports®
- Vol. 66 (21) , 668-672
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4587733
Abstract
Various infectious diseases of poultry which may constitute public health problems are considered as inter-species infection chains. As regards adaptation and persistence, the host-parasite relationships between man and other mammals has greater expectancy than have those between man and poultry (birds), yet great numerical superiority of poultry to domesticated mammals favors contact adaptation. Examples are cited of the nature of the host-parasite relationship and reference is made to certain epizootiological relationships of the poultry-human diseases as pointing toward means for their ultimate suppression.Keywords
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