- Brucellosis Fact Sheet - http://www.doh.wa.gov/topics/bruce.htm
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can be passed from animals, such as cows, sheep and goats, to humans.
- Q Fever Pages - http://www.ehs.ufl.edu/Bio/qfever/qmain.htm
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.
- Rift Valley Fever - http://www.fao.org/NEWS/1998/rvf-e.htm
A mosquito-borne viral disease leading to serious economic losses in livestock, particularly sheep. Transmission, symptoms, related links.
- Johne's disease - http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/964
Information about bovine (cattle) and ovine (goat) Johne's disease and its control in New South Wales.
- Illini Biosecurity Website - http://il-traill.outreach.uiuc.edu/biosecurity/
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.
- Anthrax - http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/agency/Pubns/farmnote/1994/F05594.htm
Clinical signs that can be found in sheep, goats, cattle and humans. Includes treatments that are described.
- Cheesy Gland - http://agspsrv38.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/folder/ikmp/pw/ah/dis/sl/f03097.pdf
Causes, spread, symptoms, and prevention of CLA in sheep and goats.
- Screw-worm Fly - http://agspsrv38.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/folder/ikmp/pw/ins/ap/fn077_2002.pdf
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.
- Prion Diseases - http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/3035/prions.html
Information about scrapie and other diseases in which a protein is the infective agent.
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