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Taking into account the uncontrolled increase in urban processes and the size of marginal zones in the big cities, the risk of natural disasters around the world is greater every day. “The world is blindly walking toward inevitable natural disasters, which effects could be dramatically reduced through a slight increase in risk control spending”, said, in Geneva, the UN humanitarian aid chief, during a Global Platform for Disaster Reduction meeting. He also mentioned the fact that the majority of countries still have the pending task of incorporating natural-disaster prevention strategies to their development policies. The losses due to disasters are quantitative, influencing the development process of the countries and affecting all socioeconomic sectors, with direct and indirect immeasurable losses that have a great impact on the human and animal populations. This includes the loss of homes and jobs as well as income decreases and an increase of production costs, deepening social burdens such as poverty, decease, environmental degradation, and migration. In general, when disasters occur they affect the animal health, production and well-being, as well as human health and our relation with the different animal species. The participation of Veterinarian Doctors in these situations has been, in many occasions, limited by the scarce incorporation it has had in the corresponding teams, created for disaster management, and worsened by material and technical issues.

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Vol. 4 Núm.1. Enero-Junio 2009 Pags. 9 CES Med Vet Zootec 2009; 4(1)