Organic Waste Recycling

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Probable vector or means of spread Occupational exposure Contact and occupational ex

posure

Contact exposure (humans arequite resistant) Contact exposure Virus contaminates food and environment Mainly airborne, although milk may be a vehicle and occasionally ticks Occupational exposure, ingestion of contaminated meat Occupational exposure Ingestion of contaminated milk products and other foods

Geographical distribution Worldwide Worldwide Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America Asia and Europe Worldwide Worldwide Worldwide Worldwide

Principal animals affected Cattle Birds, related virus found in cattle and cats Cattle, pigs, related species Pigs rodents Rodens pigs, dogs Sheep, cattle, goats, fowl, wild birds, mammals Cattle, sheep, goats Cattle, sheep, goats, pigs

Causative organism Virus Virus Virus Virus Virus Coxiella burnetii Bacillus anthracis Brucella abortus Br. suis Br. melitensis

Disease Pseudo-cowpox Psittacosis-ornithosis Foot and mouth disease Influenza and parainfluenza Lymphocytic choriomeningitis 2.

Rickettsial diseases

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fever 3.

Bacterial diseases

Table 2.24 Epidemiological aspects of some of the zoonoses (continued) Anthrax Brucellosis