Description of causes of mortality in cattle over 2 years, foreseen interest for epidemiological surveillance

Abstract

 Conference: International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance (ICAHS), Lyon, France, 17-20 May, 2011.International audienceWe are currently implementing a cattle mortality monitoring system in France. Building such a system requires a good knowledge of the baseline mortality and its determinants. Thanks to a database gathering data about more than 40 000 deaths of adult cattle that occurred in France from August 2000 to March 2001, we described the causes of mortality according to temporal and individual factors. Besides its interest for animal production science, this descriptive work will help us to define the baseline against which anomalies could be detected in the future mortality monitoring syste