TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Infectious Diseases: Industrial Animal Operations
A1  - Davis, Meghan F.
A2  - Boulton, Matthew L.
A2  - Wallace, Robert B.
PY  - 2022
T2  - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
AB  - The  raising  of  animals—for  meat,  for  milk,  for  fiber,  for  draft—may  be  among  the  oldest  of  professions,  dating  back  thousands  of  years  to  the  domestication  of  animals.1,2  Equally,  anthropozoonotic  infections,  that  is,  those  transmitted  among  humans  and  animals,  are  also  among  the  first  recorded  diseases.  For  example,  the  Roman  poet  Virgil  described  transmission  of  anthrax  from  infected  animals  to  humans  via  contact  with  wool:  “The  pelts  of  diseased  animals  were  useless,  and  neither  water  or  fire  could  cleanse  the  taint  from  their  flesh…if  anyone  wore  garments  made  from  tainted  wool,  his  limbs  were  soon  attacked  by  inflamed  papules  and  a  foul  exudate.”3  In  the  nineteenth  century,  anthrax  was  called  “wool-sorters”  disease,  emphasizing  the  importance  of  the  occupational  routes  of  exposure.4  Even  today,  anthrax  remains  a  persistent,  although  rare,  risk  among  a  variety  of  professionals  who  work  in  agricultural  or  textile  settings.5  Public  health  success  in  the  management  of  occupational  anthrax  may  be  due  to  several  factors,  in  part  to  improved  recognition  and  control  of  the  disease  at  both  the  animal  and  the  worker  level,  and  in  part  to  the  reduction  in  the  number  of  workers  who  handle  animals  and  their  products.  
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PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/24
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182673882
ER  -