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In a 2010 opinion piece in Trends in Microbiology, Paul and David Torgerson argued that bovine tuberculosis is a negligible public-health problem in the UK, providing milk is pasteurized. Bovine TB is very rarely spread by aerosol from cattle to humans.
The cumulative cost of the bovine TB programme in the last 20 years is about £750m. The chief veterinary officer warned that, given the current trajectory, spend on the programme alone may be ...
Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze. [1] [9] People with latent TB do not spread the disease. [1] Active infection occurs more often in people with HIV/AIDS and in those who smoke. [1]
Humans can be infected with the Mycobacterium bovis bacterium, which causes the disease "bovine TB" (bTB). Between 1994 and 2011, 570 human cases of bovine TB were reported in humans. Most of these cases are thought to be in older people who could have been infected before milk pasteurisation became common in the UK. [12]
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most common cause of both pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous lymphadenitis. [1] [6] Historically, transmission of Mycobacterium bovis from dairy consumption was another frequent cause of tuberculous lymphadenitis, but incidence has drastically decreased in developed countries since the advent of pasteurization and other efforts to prevent bovine ...
No one has spread it to another person, so far. However, viruses are constantly mutating, so officials worry changes to bird flu can make it more transmissible or cause more severe illness.
His work includes research in tuberculosis in cattle, emerging infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, influenza, lyssavirus, filovirus, henipavirus, and rabies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Selected publications
Tuberculosis vaccines are only recommended under select circumstances in the U.S. But vaccines against polio and measles are part of routine childhood vaccinations, Petri says.