The main danger to farmers and vets is when the cow or heifer has brucellosis...that is a chronic flu like disease like malaria..only with more long term problems like chronic fatigue....
You're aware, I hope, that cowpox is a generally very mild illness? On a par with chickenpox, but even less problematic. And that the first smallpox vaccines were the result of someone noticing that milkmaids and similar cow-exposed farmhands who got cowpox NEVER got smallpox? That, in fact, some of the earliest "smallpox vaccines" were nothing more than rubbing the fluid from an active cowpox lesion on a "standing right over there" cow onto the skin, then lightly pricking, cutting, or scraping to make sure the fluid got into the body and caused a case of cowpox in the person being vaccinated?
BTDT... Moved into a place whose previous occupants had a chihuahua so-called "Therapy Dog". It had fleas. I'll tell you how I know this, even though I never actually met them - I'd seen the chihuahua, but I can't claim I ever laid eyes on one of the humans. They'd been gone about 2 weeks, according to the landlord. Three room place - Walked in the door, walked through the three rooms, and started noticing "sparklies" on my pant legs before I got into the bedroom. Got in front of a window to get good light, and the "sparklies" turned out to be a wall of fleas at about knee-height working their way up looking for skin, and I was starting to feel bites just above my socks.
I got mad because I got really sick from garden I know that sounds bad but after 3 different appartment I wanted a garden it was beautiful raised bed amazing soil I hand turned with a shovel picked rocks out by hand I had the best plants big amazing plants then I got sick went in found out I a stomach bug thing that u get from cat poo I was mad I don't even have cats so my husband helped sift the garden and set up a motion detection sprinkler it sounds mean but it was my family's health or a cats litter box and I could take the toy dirt track away we changed to mud sports for awhile though
OK so there's parasites to in pigs we had to rid of ares and can't use the pen for 7-11 years cuz of worms we think we got sick pig from an auction and it went threw to are babys picked one up and it couldn't breath there was tons in its throat found out later humans can get it from touching the soil they used as a bathroom which usually goes on gardens and trees so if u play with any animal be aware of anything u could get sexual or not
Same danger for pregnant women with sheep are lambing
For rumiants it cuold be related to Chlamydophila-abortus which causes usual animal miscarriage.
I'm probably wrong, but sounds like malaria.
On a serious note, and I have brought this up when arguing with antis, anything you can catch via sex you can also catch by eating raw meat. It's common sense and a biological fact. Almost anything you can catch by sex you can catch by saliva contact which almost everyone who interacts with animals accepts.
At least two reason why it almost certainly wasn't - First and worst being that malaria doesn't "go away". Untreated, it's a "forever" bug that comes and goes in cycles that never end. You'll be bad off for a few days, then you'll seem to recover for a few days, then back to the miseries, then clear up for a few days, then sick for another few days, lather, rinse, repeat until, by all reports, you're ready to cut your own throat to escape from it. I've also never heard of swollen lymph nodes from malaria. Sweating and fever and chills and abdominal pain, yes. Swollen lymph nodes? Never heard that reported as a symptom.
over 50 years in my case..all farm animals..
It was probably just a nasty virus..they are always in circulation.
Yeah. I always use a rubber for those critters...
Me too- well, not fleas, but when loving a big sow in boar style, I got a few lice on me. Easy to remove, and don’t think I got bitten.
In my teens I got lice from sows too...but never had any trouble with the lice.....puffs of lice powder on the pigs backs wiped out the lice..we dont hear of any lice problems with pigs anymore....but most are all indoors now.
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EDIT : Scabies between humans can be sexually transmitted. Essentially it is body to body transmitted.
