Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Occupational zoonoses in animal husbandry and related activities.
- Journal:
- Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita
- Year:
- 2006
- Authors:
- Battelli, Giorgio et al.
- Affiliation:
- Dipartimento di Sanità · Italy
Plain-English summary
People who work with animals or animal products can sometimes get infections from them, a risk that has been recognized for a long time. In Italy, laws to help prevent these risks have only recently been put in place, even though some animal-related infections can have significant economic impacts. Factors like new farming technologies, global trade, and changes in work conditions are creating new risks for both workers and animals. To effectively prevent these infections, both veterinary and medical professionals need to work together on health monitoring, risk assessment, and safety measures. The hope is that in the future, there will be better teamwork between these fields and laws that are updated to protect workers' health and safety.
Abstract
The fact that people working with animals or their products may contract some infections has been known for centuries, before the introduction of the concept of zoonoses. Only recently, at least in Italy, was the prevention of occupational risks taken into account by legislation in spite of the fact that some zoonoses of livestock are of noticeable socio-economic importance. Nowadays some factors such as new production technologies, trade globalization, movements of people, changes in working conditions, are generating new zoonotic and occupational risks, some of which are considered re-emerging. The prevention of occupational zoonoses must be implemented jointly by both veterinary and medical services through prevention and epidemiological surveillance of human and animal health, risk evaluation, diagnosis of infections and working safety. Hopefully, we expect that in the future there will be better interdisciplinary collaboration and that legislation be timely tailored to the need to safeguard working health and safety.
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