TRANSMISSION OF EBOLA VIRUS ON ANIMAL AND HUMANS   CHAPTER ONE                                                   INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND INFORMATION Transboundary animal diseases may be defined as those epidemic diseases which are highly contagious or transmissible and have the potential for very rapid spread irrespective of national borders, causing serious socio economic and possible health consequences (FAO, 2004). They constitute only a small minority of the infectious diseases that affect livestock but are dreaded for their suddenness, acuteness, and the wide spread nature of the losses they can produce (Chris et al.,1999). There are two major … Continue reading TRANSMISSION OF EBOLA VIRUS ON ANIMAL AND HUMANS