Annual Animal Health Report
The annual animal health report is an annual publication on farm animal husbandry in Germany by the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI). The FLI is obliged to draft the report in accordance with Section 4, Paragraph 4 of the Animal Diseases Act. The first year reported on the year 1999. Until 2003, the reports were published under the title Annual Reports of the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals (BFAV) . The report is divided into four chapters on around 120 pages.
Chapter 1 gives an overview of the current status of the public veterinary system in the Federal Republic of Germany. This is where the tasks of the public veterinary system and the bodies responsible for the respective specialist area are defined. In addition, statistics on the German veterinary profession are presented.
Chapter 2 contains the development of the livestock population of farm animals in Germany and current livestock numbers of cattle , pigs , sheep and poultry in the individual federal states.
Chapter 3 contains the cases of notifiable animal diseases and notifiable animal diseases that occurred in the reporting year . In contrast to the statistics in human medicine, it is not individual illnesses that are recorded, but the number of farms with new infections.
Chapter 4 contains current studies on selected animal diseases.