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The disease panorama in cattle, pigs and poultry during the last decades shows considerable changes. The frequency of environmentally evoked diseases has increased while others have decreased. The increase in environmentally evoked diseases is mainly due to the changed relationships between the animals and their environment. The changed animal-environment relationship is due to alterations in phenotype as well as to changed environment. Examples are given of how these changed relationship cause diseases or symptom of disease i.a. through changed behavioural pattern.
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Ekesbo, I. (1978). Ethics, Ethology and Animal Health in Modern Swedish Livestock Production. In: Fölsch, D.W. (eds) The Ethology and Ethics of Farm Animal Production. Tierhaltung Animal Management, vol 6. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6459-6_15
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