Q fever

Inhalation of aerosols and dust, handlingaborted foetuses or foetal fluids

Headache, chills, fever, muscle pain, malaise, coughing, vomiting. Can be prevented by vaccination in people as long as they have no previous exposure

Campylobacteriosis     

Ingestion of contaminated food or water

Severe diarrhoea, pain, fever, headache, nausea

Scabby mouth

Handling infected material from
mouths/feet of sheep

Papule that heals spontaneously

Yersiniosis

Faeco-oral route

Acute watery diarrhoea, fever, headache

Salmonella

Faeco-oral route

Acute watery/blood flecked diarrhoea, fever, headache

Listeriosis

Food borne disease, especially chilled
foods

Transient mild flu-like to acute meningoenchephalitis with case fatality rate of 30%, foetal infection can lead to abortion

Anthrax

Respiratory, ingestion or local through
break in skin

Respiratory or gastrointestinal forms have very high mortality rates as does local skin infection if left untreated

Hydatids

Dogs infected with hydatid tapeworms,
humans ingest tapeworm eggs from dogs.
People cannot get infected from cysts in sheep

May not be obvious for some time but signs in
people depend on where cysts occur – can be fatal. Prevent by not feeding dogs raw offal
and treating dogs every 6 weeks with tapeworm tablets containing praziquantel