Health Amd Safety Flashcards
Only a few individual organisms are needed to infect humans. Which disease?
E. Coli
What carries E. Coli?
Can be carried by most animals
Transmitted through cuts and grazes, infected from rats urine
Leptospirosis- Weils disease
Transmitted through cuts and grazes or inhaled urine droplets, when cattle urine in eyes or placental products enter body
Cattle associated leptospirosis
At risk if contaminated with mucus from respiratory tract, inhalation or hand to mouth contact. Must be reported to authority
bTB
Bacterial infection carried by pigs, through cuts and grazes
S suis
Causes face, hand, arm ulcers if contact lesions. No treatment needed
Off
Dangerous for pregnant women. Passed on via infected afterbirth contact
Enzootic abortion
Carried by ducks and poultry. Transmitted by inhaling dust from dung or from nasal discharge
Psittacosis
Produces flu like fever after contact with sheep, transmitted by inhaling dust contaminated with birth products, faeces or urine
Q fever
Agent can survive months of years in spore like form
Q fever
Causes crusty skin lesions on head hands arms and neck
Ringworm
Spores enter skin through cuts and abrasions. Spores transmitted through handling infected livestock
Ringworm
