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Trichinellosis in Croatia-chronology of a problem

Over the past decade, Croatia has experienced an emergence of trichinellosis. Different outbreaks in last five years involved exactly 1359 people. Due to uncontrolled migration of people and animals cused by war conflicts, the trichinellosis in Croatia spread to other neighbouring areas in which outbreaks were completely unknown In order to prevent any infection in humans the Ministry of Agriculture and forestry promulgated a decree of obligatory trichinelloscopy for swine slaughtered in all conditions including private slughter. The aims of this study were to describe 1)the chronology of events that caused the rapid spread of the disease in domestic swine as human outbreaks in order to reveale the causes of the economic disaster and 2) the economic losses provoked by the outbreaks in humans and very high prevalence in swine. Costs due to outbreaks included costs of health care, costs of investigation of an outbreak, loss of productivity due to absenteeism and disability. According to the high prevalence of disease in swine economic losses were due to costs of trichinelloscopy, costs of prompt disposal and inceneration of infected carcasses, costs of more intensive rodent control, costs of continuous serological screening, loss of sales since consumers avoid swine meat products, costs for the establishment of the large scale education of veterinarians, farmers etc.

Trichinellosis; chronology of events; economic losses

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