ABSTRACT
Specifically, the WHO explains that new pathogens from animals particularly viruses remain unpredictable and continue to emerge and spread across the countries. The diseases are also a concern to global health owing to their epidemic potential, high case fatality ratio and the absence of specific treatment and vaccines available to control the spread of most of these zoonotic diseases (with the exception of the yellow fever vaccine) As the world is increasingly inter-connected, emerging zoonoses in one country can potentially constitute a threat to global health security. Trade and its effects on public health, through disease spread, is a matter of both historical and contemporary policy significance. The spread of the disease has been linked to traded products moved through carriage vehicles, such as ships, as seen during the “Black Death.” Agriculture, which includes animal health, plays a role in the interface between trade and public health.
