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The Scientific Conference of the Cattle Diseases

Demands Epidemical Map of the Animal and Preventing the Slaughter of Calves The Tenth Scientific Conference of the Cattle Disease concluded its activities in Assiut University, it was organized by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, under the auspices of Prof. Moustafa Kamal, the President of the University, and Dr. Mustafa Khalil Mustafa, Faculty's Dean, and in cooperation with the Egyptian Society for cattle diseases to discuss how to increase the supply of animal protein in Egypt to reach self-sufficiency of red meat and filling the food gap in Egypt and the Arab world. The Conference recommended that where animals need attention in terms of food with the deployment of modern methods in the composition of feed rations and with non-traditional methods, as well as interest in it from a health point especially cattle producing milk, meat and work to reduce the incidence of infectious Epidemical disease and special ones, which constitute a major influence on the prices of animals and the cost of breeding, as recommended by the need to focus on the role of more extension in the awareness of veterinary educators and staff into the animal production and to disseminate the culture of maintaining the health of animals and methods of prevention, treatment, and also maximizing the role of veterinarians in this regard through the media and specialized training programs for them, participants pointed attention to the project National veal calves and breeding according to the latest scientific methods with a resolution to prevent the slaughter of calves. Conference also called for the need to make databases, maps describing animal epidemic disease in Egypt as a national project which gathering among the Egyptian universities and specialized research centers.