Анотация: Zoonoses have emerging importance. In part this arises from increasing public awareness of the danger of infections introduced in foods of animal origin. Thus producers are more and more forced to assure the safety of their products and consumers are better educated on the best way for storing, handing and cooking of food. In some ways the intensification of animal husbandry worsens the situation by encouraging the extra contramination of the environment by the disposal of infected effluent on to pasture or into water-courses. This, coupled with new interest of the urban population in rular leisure pursuits, brings more people into contact with animal diseases. (JCB, SRP, JMP)