A minireview on epidemiological studies for livestock disease investigation

The livestock rearing system in our country is slowly getting shifted from backyard farming as an addendum to agriculture farming to full fledged scientific rearing. It is being viewed as a separate business with good global marketing potential. In this scenario, it is necessary to have a healthy disease free herd, which calls for an early disease detection and diagnosis. To achieve this a systematic study of diseases in the population is necessary. Such a study i.e., epidemiology, is essential to target the global market for the livestock produce and products. This paper reviews the various procedures that can be adopted for livestock disease investigation which will be approved by the scientific community.