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disease Agent Animals Mode of Clinical signs in Action/ prevention
involved transmission humans & notes
to humans
Salmonellosis* Salmonella spp. Widespread, Generally Gastro-enteritis, General hygiene. Test
many species. contamination host adapted poultry (S. enteritidis).
of food and human forms Cook poultry meat
water supplies. (Salmonella typhi) well. Use different
Eggs and meat, may cause severe chopping boards for
especially disease, i.e. raw and cooked food.
poultry. Typhoid. Vaccination available
against Typhoid.
Tuberculosis* Mycobacterium Bovine M. bovis, M. tuberculosis Test cattle for
tuberculosis and adapted ingestion of generally tuberculosis
M. bovis strains, M. contaminated respiratory signs (Tuberculin test),
bovis, may meat or milk and wasting, M. boil milk, cook
occur in wild (cutaneous bovis, may cause meat well. Official
animals. forms have localized disease inspection of meat
Emerging been recorded anywhere in before consumption.
cases of M. after cuts the body, often Vaccination for human
tuberculosis in during necropsy enlarged lymph tuberculosis available.
domestic and of infected nodes.
wild animals. animals). M
.tuberculosis-
aerosol
(elephants,
primates and
other species in
Asia are positive
for human
strains).
Yersiniosis Yersinia Widespread Contaminated Y. General hygiene,
pseudotuber- in birds and food and water. pseudotuberculosis, wash vegetables in
culosis mammals. causes pseudo clean water, cook
Y. enterocolitica appendicitis with meat well.
localised pain in
the abdomen,
Y. enterocolitica
causes
gastroenteritis.
RICKETTSIA
Q fever (query Coxiella burnetti Various Milk. Soil. Can Fever. Boil milk. Avoid tick
fever) animals. be vector borne bites. Coxiella burnetii
(ticks). is found in cattle,
sheep, and goats
around the world.
Humans typically
get infected when
they breathe in dust
contaminated by
infected animals.

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