The impact of controlling diseases of significant global importance on greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production

Table 12 Effect of changing disease prevalence via effective control measures (e.g. vaccination) on GHGe per kg of milk or meat

	Prevalence		GHGe, CO₂eq per kg of milk or meat^a
Livestock system	Initial	After control	Initial	After control	Change^b (%)
Dairy
Foot and mouth disease	45	5.0	1.65	1.52	-7.88
Brucellosis	50	10	1.59	1.52	-4.40
Anthrax	3.0	0.3	1.52	1.50	-1.32
Beef
Foot and mouth disease	45	5.0	81.2	73.8	-9.11
Brucellosis	50	10	79.7	74.2	-6.90
Anthrax	3.0	0.3	75.3	73.2	-2.79
Lumpy skin disease	8.0	2.5	73.9	73.3	-0.81
Swine
Classical swine fever	20	5.0	7.27	6.36	-12.5
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome	60	10	8.19	6.35	-22.5
Poultry
Low pathogenicity avian influenza	50	10	10.56	10.36	-1.89
High pathogenicity avian influenza	70	30	12.24	10.87	-11.2
Avian infectious bronchitis	75	20	12.05	10.69	-11.3
Newcastle disease	80	25	10.97	10.45	-4.74

^a Kg of fat and protein corrected milk used as the denominator for dairy cattle, kg of carcass weight meat for beef, swine and poultry
^b Change refers to the % change in GHGe per kg of milk or meat after disease control

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