PUBLIC-HEALTH ASPECT OF ANIMAL WASTE (ANIMAL CORPSES AND SLAUGHTERHOUSE CONFISCATES)

Animal corpses and slaughterhouse confiscates are a special, very specific sort of waste. it has a huge ecological and economical importance, but also hygienic and epidemiologic. Animal corpses and slaughterhouse confiscates are biologically dangerous waste because they contain large amounts of microorganisms of which many are pathogenic and can cause diseases of other animals but also of humans. These diseases are called zoonoses. There are different diseaases that are transmitted on this way: Salmonellosis, Brucellosis, q-fever, Antrax and also different parasitoses: echinococcosis, trichinellosis, teniasis. microorganisms act differently in the external environment, some live short and some very long. for some microorganisms, the living and reproducing conditions are unfavorable in the environment and they form spores which can survive for many years. When the spores enter the organism of another animal or human on an adequate way, they can cause diseases. inadequate disposal of animal corpses and slaughterhouse confiscates is often and they are available for other animals, domestic and wild as well. This is infective waste. A special role in the spread of this infective material have stray dogs, birds, rodents and different insects. inadequate waste disposal gives a very bad estethic image to the area, which causes an uncomfortable feeling of people. disintegration of Animal corpses and slaughterhouse confiscates contaminates soil and underground water which are used for water suppling. Using of contaminated waters can cause different kind of diseases in humans.