This Animal Disease Can Be Transmitted To Humans

Maintaining livestock can provide promising financial benefits. However, it should not be done carelessly. If not treated properly, livestock can be affected by disease and transmit to humans.

There are various types of livestock kept in Indonesia. Some of which are quite popular include cows, goats, buffalo, chickens, ducks, birds, fish, and pigs. Farm animals may indeed promise benefits, but can also be a source of disease if not treated properly.

Animal Disease
Poultry is one type of livestock that is maintained. Although promising benefits or can be consumed, poultry turns out to be one type of livestock that can cause disease. In addition, cattle, goats and pigs are also livestock that often transmit diseases to humans.

Here are some common diseases transmitted from livestock to humans:

avian influenza
Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is an infection caused by a virus that spreads between birds. One type of bird flu virus, H5N1, is a very deadly type for birds, humans and other mammals. This virus is spread through direct contact with poultry, both from dirt or liquid poultry; breathe air containing viruses; viruses in the air or water stick to the eyes, nose, or enter the mouth of a human; and also because it clears poultry meat. Transmission from consumption of poultry meat that is cooked until cooked is never happened. While the spread of this virus between humans is rarely found. Symptoms due to bird flu infection in humans can be very diverse. Symptoms will appear initially, such as the common cold, but will develop into severe respiratory problems that can be deadly.

Brucellosis
Brucellosis usually attacks livestock, such as goats and cattle. This disease is caused by Brucella bacteria. Transmission to humans can occur through livestock products that have been contaminated and then consumed by humans.

Inhaling air that has been contaminated with these bacteria, or making direct contact with infected livestock, can also contract the disease. Brucella bacteria can come out of the body of a cow or goat through milk, urine, placental fluid, and other fluids from the body of livestock.

If contracted, symptoms that appear include body feeling weak, dizzy, weight loss, decreased appetite, back pain, all body joints ache, fever, chills, and night sweats. On examination usually found enlargement of liver and spleen organs.

Taeniasis / cysticercosis
Taeniasis is an intestinal infection. This condition is caused by adult tapeworms that enter the human body through consumption of undercooked beef or pork, or even raw. Meat conditions like this still have a cystic form that contains tapeworm larvae.
Cystic larvae that enter the human body will multiply in the muscles, skin, eyes, and central nervous system. Taeniasis sufferers will remove worm eggs through feces which can then contaminate the environment.

Swallowed worm eggs can develop in the central nervous system of the brain (neurosysticercosis) and result in epilepsy, although previously the patient had no history of epilepsy. This disease is characterized by convulsions, excessive headaches, dementia, meningitis, blindness, or hydrocephalus.

So that you can take advantage of maintaining livestock with the maximum, press the risk by maintaining the cleanliness and condition of farm animals. Give vitamins and check the health of farm animals regularly, to prevent the appearance of disease. If you or family members experience symptoms of a disease that is likely to be transmitted by farm animals, see a doctor immediately.