What Is Brucellosis?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
3. Transmission
The Brucella bacteria is often transmitted from animals to people through consumption. This can mean through eating meat that has not been cooked thoroughly enough. In some cases, the bacterium is spread through the consumption of infected dairy products.
Direct contact with blood and other bodily fluids can also cause people to become infected, but infection does not take place just by being in physical contact with other animals. Brucellosis bacteria are also sometimes inhaled from the air. The bacterium is not usually transmitted from person to person, except for cases when it is transmitted to a child through their mother’s breast milk.
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