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Brucellosis Fact Sheet Brucellosis Fact Sheet: Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can be passed from animals, such as cows, sheep and goats, to humans. (Livestock) http://www.doh.wa.gov/topics/bruce.htm Animal Diseases : University of Nebraska Animal Diseases : University of Nebraska: Articles on specific livestock diseases. (Livestock) http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/ Cheesy Gland Cheesy Gland: Causes, spread, symptoms, and prevention of CLA in sheep and goats. (Livestock) http://agspsrv38.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/folder/ikmp/pw/ah/dis/sl/f03097.pdf Screw-worm Fly Screw-worm Fly: Serious threat to pastoral industries, occurs in almost all tropical countries except Australia. Its life cycle and potential impact on cattle, sheep, dogs and humans are described. (Livestock) http://agspsrv38.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/folder/ikmp/pw/ins/ap/fn077_2002.pdf Rift Valley Fever Rift Valley Fever: A mosquito-borne virual disease leading to serious economic losses in livestock, particularly sheep. Transmission, symptoms, related links. (Livestock) http://www.fao.org/NEWS/1998/rvf-e.htm Johne's Disease or Paratuberculosis Johne's Disease or Paratuberculosis: Origin, diagnosis and eradication. (Livestock) http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/ansci/g02115.htm Anthrax Anthrax: Clinical signs that can be found in sheep, goats, cattle and humans. Includes treatments that are described. (Livestock) http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/agency/Pubns/farmnote/1994/F05594.htm Johne's disease Johne's disease: Information about bovine (cattle) and ovine (goat) Johne's disease and its control in New South Wales. (Livestock) http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/964 Diagnostic Tests Diagnostic Tests: Report about small ruminants for lentivirus infections, caseous, lymphadenitis and johne's. Sheep and Goats. (Livestock) http://www.usaha.org/reports/shgo97.html#diag BSE: TSE Questions and Answers BSE: TSE Questions and Answers: Easy to read information about incidence of BSE in the UK as well as about the transmission and control of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as "scrapie", in sheep and goats. (Livestock) http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/bse/bse-science/level-4-tse-quanda.html#scrapie Q Fever Pages Q Fever Pages: Links to information about Q fever, a bacterial zoonosis, disease capable of being transmitted from animals to people caused by coxiella burnetii, a rickettsial organism. (Livestock) http://www.ehs.ufl.edu/Bio/qfever/qmain.htm Prion Diseases Prion Diseases: Information about scrapie and other diseases in which a protein is the infective agent. (Livestock) http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/3035/prions.html Illini Biosecurity Website Illini Biosecurity Website: Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy University of Illinois Extension and Illinois TRAILL's information on biosecurity and livestock diseases that are in the news. (Livestock) http://il-traill.outreach.uiuc.edu/biosecurity/