Bacterial and viral zoonotic diseases of equines
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https://doi.org/10.35954/SM2020.39.2.5Keywords:
Horses; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Military Health; Military Personnel; Preventive Medicine; Public Health; ZoonosesAbstract
Certain bacterial and viral zoonotic diseases shared between equines and humans are presented, which can be transmitted to military personnel working in the National Army Mounted Armed Forces. Intending to generate awareness in the medical community, providing a guide to create prevention and control strategies, enhancing the joint work of all health actors.
The most frequent zoonoses that can be transmitted to humans are described. The transmission of the infectious agents involved can be by direct contact, ingestion, inhalation, by intermediate vectors or bites. About 200 zoonoses have been characterized, some of them with wide geographical distribution; and as the infectious agents involved are multiple, the most commonly observed according to clinical experience, and those considered dangerous in case of occurrence, are exposed.
A multidisciplinary and focused effort is required to understand the risk factors of zoonoses and to carry out the necessary interventions to control them. Veterinarians should cooperate from their place in public health to the prevention and control of this type of diseases by contributing from the daily education of the personnel in charge regarding the prevention of these diseases, and also in advising their superiors, since they are the professionals who have the medical and epidemiological knowledge of zoonoses.
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