The economics of animal disease control, coordinator B.D. Perry : book review

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Extracted from text ... 179 Book review - Boekresensie The economics of animal disease control Coordinator: B D Perry 1999. Office Internationale des ?pizooties, Paris. Soft cover. 276 pp. Price 40ecu including postage. ISBN 92-9044-488-6. One of the recurring questions - largely rhetorical - within the veterinary fraternity in South Africa concerns the relative impact and cost of some of the major epidemic and endemic diseases that confront us, particularly those caused by ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBD). This excellent compendium of 16 papers dealing with the economics of disease control makes 2 points on this issue. First, that the question itself is ..