Animal health

In the interests of animal health, the Veterinary Office of the City of Bonn is responsible for the control and containment of animal diseases, feed monitoring and the disposal of animal carcasses.

Animal diseases

The characteristics of an animal disease that must be controlled by the state and is therefore notifiable are its high tendency to spread, the economic damage it causes, the health risk to humans in the case of some diseases and the fact that the affected owner cannot defend himself against the animal disease alone. In recent years, foot-and-mouth disease, swine fever, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which include BSE and scrapie, and rabies have repeatedly been in the media spotlight.

Detailed information on the subject of animal diseases is available from the Animal Disease Information System TSIS of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health.

TSIS - Animal Disease Information System (opens in a new tab)