A realidade da exploração de jumentos para exportação de pele no Brasil: surtos sanitários e bem-estar animal comprometido em asininos resgatados

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Lucas Santana da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva, Aline Rocha, Rodrigues, Frederico Augusto Mazzocca Lopes, Sakamoto, Sidnei Miyoshi, Nunes, Vania de Fátima Plaza, Zanella, Adroaldo José, Oliveira, Chiara Albano de Araujo, Escodro, Pierre Barnabé
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/bjvras/article/view/174674
• topic: Bem-estar de jumentos; Ejiao; Zoonose; Emergência sanitária; Bem-estar único; Donkey welfare; Ejiao; Zoonosis; Sanitary emergency; One welfare

  About 800 donkeys that were confined in a restrictive area used in a manner comparable to a warehouse for receiving donkeys for slaughter were abandoned. After receiving reports of mistreatment, civilians acted to save the animals. A task force was organized that planned veterinary and zootechnical actions and activities for daily health management, feeding, and clinical care to attend to the abandoned donkeys. Positive cases were diagnosed for glanders, equine infectious anemia, equine herpesvirus, and equine babesiosis. The objective of this communication is to bring to the attention of the scientific community the interventions in the area of animal health and welfare, to address the episode of northeast donkeys that were victims of international trade. It is fundamental to change the approach related to the management of donkeys in Brazil, and appeal to the necessity to identify ethical and sustainable ways to incorporate donkeys in Brazil in the 21st century.