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The short answer would be a great deal of misery and suffering for both humans and animals. Devastating plagues would decimate animal populations resulting in wide-spread famine and numerous human plagues. Zoonotic diseases such as rabies, brucellosis (undulant fever in humans), and tuberculosis would make a resurgence. Medical research would be stopped in its tracks, resulting in the absence of new drugs to treat infections, cancer and other diseases. The safety of the meat supply would become questionable, as it takes a veterinarian to determine what carcasses are safe for humans to eat. Epidemiologic investigations into emerging Infectious Diseases would be made much more difficult. Also, our companion animals and pets would suffer from a variety of preventable diseases like kennel cough, parvovirus and coronavirus, all of which cause a baseline level of disease and death in infected populations.

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