Bioterrorisme et santé animale

Pets and livestock constitute potential targets of the bioterrorism. They live in the intimacy of the human and can constitute a relay for zoonoses agents. Livestock are also potential targets, as economic resources and origin of the food line production. Two categories of germs can thus be identified like agents of bioterrorism interfering with animal health: bacteria and viruses responsible for zoonoses, identical to the agents of bioterrorism targeting the man and which constitute the majority of the agents of bioterrorism, and the agents responsible for specifically animal diseases, much fewer. These two aspects are developed in the following text.