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Zoonosis : an animal
disease that can be transmitted to humans
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Abortus Fever
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Brucellosis
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Actinomycosis
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A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence
of {Actinomyces bovis}. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp.
about the jaw. Called also {lumpy jaw} or {big jaw}. [Webster1913]
An infectious disease caused
predominantly by Actinomyces israelii in humans and by A. bovis
in cattle. Characteristics include indolent lymphadenitis of the
mouth and neck (with the characteristic lumpy jaw in cattle);
intraperitoneal and pelvic abscesses, including those of the
liver; and sometimes lung abscesses due to aspiration. Infection
is accompanied by fever and weight loss. Pus from a suppurative
lesion may contain yellow clusters called sulfur granules.
[Dorland]
Example
from a 1925 Death
Certificate from Ohio:
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Anthrax
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- A hard and circumscribed inflammatory tubercle like a boil,
which sometimes forms on the cheek, neck, or back, and in a
few days becomes highly gangrenous. It then discharges an extremely
fetid sanies from under the black core, which like a burning
coal, continues destroying the surrounding parts. It is supposed
to arise from a peculiar miasma, is most common in warm climates,
and often attends the plague. [Hooper1843].
A carbuncle. A hard, circumscribed,
inflammatory dark red or purple tumor, accompanied by a sense of
burning, resembling a boil, but having no central core.
[Thomas1875]
- An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed
to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium ({Bacillus anthracis}),
the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may
be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly
enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also {splenic fever}.
[Webster1913].
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- An infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals,
especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus
anthracis. The disease can be transmitted to humans through
contact with contaminated animal substances, such as hair, feces,
or hides, and is characterized by ulcerative skin lesions. [Heritage].
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- Also called carbuncle.
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Information sheet from NYS
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Fact sheet from WHO
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Balkan Flu
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Q Fever
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Bang's Disease
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Brucellosis
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Big Jaw
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Actinomycosis
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Bissa |
An affection of man and sheep,
common in Egypt, and characterized by the production of edema.
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Blackbain
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Synonym of Anthrax. [Gould1916]
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Bloody Murrain
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Anthrax
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Brucellosis
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- An infectious
bacterial disease of humans that is caused by brucellae, transmitted
by contact with infected animals, and characterized by fever,
malaise, and headache. [Heritage]
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- A disease of
domestic animals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and dogs, that
is caused by brucellae and sometimes results in spontaneous
abortions in newly infected animals. Also called Bang's disease.
[CancerWEB]
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Fact sheet from CDC
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Information sheet from NYS
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Fact sheet from WHO
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Canicola Fever
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An acute feverish disease in people and in dogs marked by gastroenteritis
and mild jaundice. Leptospirosis. [Wordnet].
Weil's disease. [Whonamedit]
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Canine Madness
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Hydrophobia
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Carbo
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Anthrax
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Carbuncle
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Anthrax. A boil, differing from the furuncle in having no
central core, and terminating in gangrene under the skin,
instead of suppuration. [Hoblyn1855]
A group of boils. Anthrax. [CancerWEB]
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Charbon
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Anthrax
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Contagious Abortion
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Brucellosis. An infectious disease often resulting in abortion;
transmittable to humans through contaminated milk. [Wordnet]
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Cowpox
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A mild contagious skin disease of cattle, usually affecting the
udder that is caused by a virus and characterized by the eruption
of a pustular rash. When the virus is transmitted to humans, as
by vaccination, it can confer immunity to smallpox. Also called
vaccinia. [Heritage]
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Creeping Eruption
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Creeping eruption results from the presence of larvae of the dog
and cat hookworm, Ancylostoma braziliense, in the epidermis of man.
[Saunders1945]
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Cyprus Fever
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Brucellosis
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Deer Fly Fever
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Tularemia
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Droes
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Glanders
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Epidemic Jaundice
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Leptospirosis
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Equina
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A dangerous contagious disorder, accompanied
by a postular eruption, which arises from inoculation with certain
diseased fluids generated in the horse, the ass, and the mule. -
Glanders, farcy, malleus. [Dunglison1874]
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Farcy
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A disease in which numerous small tumors
suppurate and form ulcers. It occurs in the horse, ass and mule;
and is often communicated by contagion to men attending on those
animals. In its aggravated form it is generally fatal.
[Thomas1875] This is a scrofulous disease affecting the horse. [Kendall1881].
Glanders [Thomas1907].
A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating
enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature
as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also {farcin}, and {farcimen}.
Note: Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to
other animals and to human beings. [Webster1913].
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Farcy Bud
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A hard, prominent swelling occurring upon the
cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation
of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration. [Webster1913]
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Francis Disease
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Tularemia
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Gibraltar Fever
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Brucellosis
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Glanders
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A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses,
mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter
from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath
and within the lower jaw. It may be transmitted to dogs, goats,
sheep, and to human beings. [Webster1913]
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Goats’ Milk Fever
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Brucellosis
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Green Monkey Disease
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A viral disease of green monkeys; when transmitted to humans it
causes serious or fatal illness [syn: Marburg disease, Marburg-Ebola
disease]. [Wordnet]
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Hydrophobia
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Canine madness. This disease arises in consequence of the bite of
a rabid animal, as a dog or cat, and sometimes spontaneously. It
is termed hydrophobia, because persons that are thus bitten dread
the sight or the falling of water when first seized. [Hooper1829].
A specific infectious disease peculiar to animals, especially the
dog, and communicated to man by inoculation, generally by a bite.
It is characterized in man by melancholia; great fear of water;
violent spasms of the pharynx and larynx, rendering deglutition
and respiration very difficult; great prostration, a stage of paralysis,
which generally terminates in death; Rabies. [Thomas1907]
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Japanese Encephalitis
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Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an arthropod-borne virus disease affecting
the central nervous system (CNS) of human beings and, less frequently,
horses. The infection also results in the birth of litters of pigs
with a high percentage of stillbirths or pigs affected with encephalitis.
[GrayBook]
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Larva Migrans
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Creeping Eruption
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Leptospirosis
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An infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans
from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever. [Wordnet]
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Lumpy Jaw
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Actinomycosis
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Lyme Arthritis
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Lyme Disease
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Lyme Disease
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An inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling
and fever; caused by the bite of a deer tick. [Wordnet]
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Lyssa
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A term for rabies; rage, or madness. Usually applied to
hydrophobia. [Thomas1875]
The plural (Lyssae) has been used to signify the pustules supposed
to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia. [CancerWEB]
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Madness
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Rabies
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Malignant Edema
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Anthrax
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Malignant Pustule
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Anthrax
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Malleus
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Glanders, Equina.
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Malta Fever
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Brucellosis
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Marburg Disease
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Green Monkey Disease
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Marburg-Ebola Disease
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Green Monkey Disease
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Marsh Fever
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Swamp Fever
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Mediterranean Fever
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Contracted from meat or milk products from infected domestic animals;
Brucellosis. [Heritage]
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Melioidosis
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A highly fatal infectious bacterial disease, primarily occurring
in rodents in India and Southeast Asia that is characterized in
humans by systemic caseous nodules. [Heritage]
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Neapolitan Fever
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Brucellosis
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Nine Mile Fever
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Q Fever
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North Queensland Fever
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Q Fever
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O'Hara Disease
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Tularemia
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Ornithosis
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Psittacosis
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Parrot Fever
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Psittacosis
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Pruna
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Anthrax
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Psittacosis
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An infectious disease of parrots and related birds caused by the
bacterium Chlamydia psittaci, that is communicable to humans, in
whom it produces high fever, severe headache, and symptoms similar
to pneumonia. Also called parrot fever. [Heritage]
Information sheet from NYS
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Query / Q Fever
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A disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burneti which mainly
afflicts sheep and cattle but can be transmitted to humans who have
contact with infected animals. Symptoms resemble those of influenza
and include fever, headache and lung inflammation. [HyperBiology]
Fact sheet from CDC
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Rabbit Fever
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Tularemia
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Rabies
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- A disease
caused by the saliva of dogs and some other animals being
absorbed into the system through a wound, bite, or scratch.
In this disorder the very sight of water, or any liquid,
usually causes a spasm of the pharynx, accompanied by a
sense of suffocation, and an indescribable horror, whence
the name hydrophobia (or, "dread of water"), by which it is
commonly known. [Thomas1875]
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- An acute, infectious,
often fatal viral disease of most warm-blooded animals, especially
wolves, cats, and dogs, that attacks the central nervous system
and is transmitted by the bite of infected animals; Hydrophobia.
[Heritage]
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Fact sheet from CDC
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Information
Card from the CDC
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Information sheet from NYS
Dept of Health
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Fact sheet from WHO
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Red Murrain
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Anthrax
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Rift Valley Fever
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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arthropod-borne (primarily mosquito),
acute, febrile, viral disease of sheep, cattle, and goats. The disease
in these species is characterized by high abortion rates, high mortality
in neonates, and hepatic necrosis. Humans are highly susceptible.
Symptoms in humans in most cases are those of an acute undifferentiated
febrile disease; severe cases (about 1 percent) resemble a dengue-like
disease accompanied by hemorrhage, meningoencephalitis, retinopathy,
and sometimes death. [GrayBook]
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Fact sheet from CDC
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Fact sheet from WHO
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Rio Grande Fever
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Brucellosis
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Rock Fever
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Brucellosis
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Slime Fever
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Leptospirosis
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Slow Fever
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Brucellosis
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Splenic Fever
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Anthrax
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Swamp Fever
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This is a milder form of leptospirosis due to infection by Lept.
Grippotyphosa. It is unaccompanied by jaundice. Although the fever
may reach 104° F. or higher it is said to be a non-fatal disease.
[Saunders1945]
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Tularemia
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Disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes
transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected
animals [syn: tularemia, rabbit fever, deer fly fever]. [Wordnet]
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Fact sheet from CDC
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Information sheet from NYS
Dept of Health
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Undulant Fever
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Brucellosis
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Vietnamese Time Bomb
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Melioidosis
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Weil's Disease
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An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with
muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
[Webster1913].
A severe form of leptospirosis in humans that is characterized by
jaundice, fever, muscle pain, and a tendency to hemorrhage. [Heritage]
Weil's disease is a rare infection caused by
the bacterium Leptospira interrogans and can lead to death. It was
classified in 1917. Humans are most commonly infected by contact
with water that contains the urine of infected animals, usually
rats. [Wikipedia]
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Yatobyo
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Tularemia
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Zoonosis
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An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans. [Wordnet]
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