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Brucellosis
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If I remember correctly, the percentage of feral swine in Texas that carry antibodies for brucellosis is somewhere around %65. That means they have been exposed to brucellosis and don't necessarily have the ability to infect someone. The samples were taken from random pigs all over the state. I'll have to look to see if I can find a link to the data...
Edit: my numbers are off. Corrected info is below...
Edit: my numbers are off. Corrected info is below...
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Look what the cat dragged in !!! Don't be a stranger, just be strange.
Yea I've been missing from the forum for a while. Work really kicked my butt this deer season. I'm just barely now getting time to look at everything I missed!
just about any mammal can get it. Even deer. It's really rare though.
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I first heard of Brucellosis under the name of Undulant Fever. I was writing a high school paper on our biological weapons stockpile. It was considered difficult to obtain seed stock 
back then but very easily aerosolised/weaponised. Not much use on front line troops, but very disruptive on a nations workforce if you could spray it apon a civilian population base. I'm kinda glad the enemy now does not like to work with pigs.
back then but very easily aerosolised/weaponised. Not much use on front line troops, but very disruptive on a nations workforce if you could spray it apon a civilian population base. I'm kinda glad the enemy now does not like to work with pigs.
Well guys looks like I was wrong. I just went to look up the prevalence and it is between 23 and 11% for Texas. Guess my noggin was a little off...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=icwdm_usdanwrc&ved=0ahUKEwiy5aie4JbMAhVClYMKHV8VDy0QFggiMAI&usg=AFQjCNGRwPUNqI0Eq3_bbiZHpwPB_ZQ0Eg&sig2=eins7W0b_zarPlcwCCIWAA
The link is the only place I could find that has this lady's research freely available. She did this research mainly in South Texas through Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=icwdm_usdanwrc&ved=0ahUKEwiy5aie4JbMAhVClYMKHV8VDy0QFggiMAI&usg=AFQjCNGRwPUNqI0Eq3_bbiZHpwPB_ZQ0Eg&sig2=eins7W0b_zarPlcwCCIWAA
The link is the only place I could find that has this lady's research freely available. She did this research mainly in South Texas through Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
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You just been out huntin' pole cats every night (around the place). We know. LOL
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The link is the only place I could find that has this lady's research freely available. She did this research mainly in South Texas through Texas A&M University-Kingsville.[/QUOTE]
If Dr. Henke and Dr. Hewitt were involved you can count on that data. Two extremely intelligent and dedicated professors and two of the best teachers I've ever had. They don't mess around.
If Dr. Henke and Dr. Hewitt were involved you can count on that data. Two extremely intelligent and dedicated professors and two of the best teachers I've ever had. They don't mess around.
Yep, hogs are carriers. Hogs carry a variety of zoonotic diseases. Then again, so do all the other mammals.
That is a bit over the top almost to the point of ignorance. All mammals present a biohazard to humans, especially other humans. No reason for things to get overblown out of proportion. I know far too many folks who butcher boar, deer, and livestock without the benefit of gloves and while they may have been lucky about not getting any serious infections, none have died from the exposure. That isn't to say that such exposure isn't dangerous, but relegating it to 'graveyard dead' is unrealistic. I don't doubt it was stated, but if it was such a terrible threat, we would be missing a lot of hog hunters/consumers.
That is a bit over the top almost to the point of ignorance. All mammals present a biohazard to humans, especially other humans. No reason for things to get overblown out of proportion. I know far too many folks who butcher boar, deer, and livestock without the benefit of gloves and while they may have been lucky about not getting any serious infections, none have died from the exposure. That isn't to say that such exposure isn't dangerous, but relegating it to 'graveyard dead' is unrealistic. I don't doubt it was stated, but if it was such a terrible threat, we would be missing a lot of hog hunters/consumers.
Looks like we get to call the butterballs terrorists.
But be sure to wear your rubbers if you're fat like me...... I guess you skinny guys may be ok.....
But be sure to wear your rubbers if you're fat like me...... I guess you skinny guys may be ok.....
Yes. I agree completely. They are great!
This is a very interesting thread. Makes you wonder if yotes or other carrion feeding animal or birds could carry.
Just read dog can get it as well a marine mammals dolfins
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