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Besides giving treatment, Veterinary Doctors perform surgery, prevent spreading of diseases in animals by administering timely vaccination and medicines and give advice on care of pets and farm animals. Their activities that may also include Animal husbandry- animal breed improvement by ‘selection breeding' and artificial insemination, animal research in order to control spread of diseases transmitted through animals like Swine Flu or Bird Flu ; thus protecting the people from exposure to diseases carried by animals, which is the biggest challenge now with WHO recognizing Swine flue a pandemic .Wildlife conservation, Poultry management and Health care, livestock insurance and rural development are also in the scope of the Veterinary Science.
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Doctors diagnosing, treating animals and birds are termed as Veterinary Doctors. India has the largest number of cattles in World thus the need for Veterinary Doctors in India is huge. The profession involves basic understanding the problem of the animals and curing with appropriate drugs and treatment, In fact Veterinary Doctors jobs is much more complicated than the general physician where the patient speak out the problem. It involves not only taking care of animal health but also includes scientific breeding and handling of livestock.