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Animal Practitioners' Occupational Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 January 2023) | Viewed by 1820

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Elisa Mazzotta

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Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
Interests: zoonoses; one health; leptospirosis; emergent zoonotic pathogens; veterinary medicine; infectious diseases; parasitic diseases; small animal internal medicine
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Dr. Valentina Stefanetti

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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Via San Costanzo 4, 06126 Perugia, Italy
Interests: veterinary infectious diseases; zoonoses; antimicrobial resistance surveillance; One-Health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Animal practitioners represent a large number of people involved in production, services (e.g., farmers, slaughterers, rodent control operators, food industries) and medical systems (veterinarian doctors, nurses, technicians). The most common causes of occupational disease in animal practitioners are related to close contact with animals (e.g., infectious agents, mostly zoonoses) and exposure to environmental contaminants (e.g., fungal or parasitic diseases) or pollution (e.g., allergies, poisoning and cancer). The heterogeneity and the complexity of these diseases and the lack of epidemiological and ecological data mean they are often unrecognized and poorly reported. New strategies for the control and monitoring of occupational diseases in animal practitioners may be advantageous to enhance preparedness regarding occupational disease caused by animal and environmental exposure, improving prevention programs and risk assessment. Animal practitioners’ occupational disease surveillance may be a sensitive indicator, providing an early warning system for public health intervention.

Focusing on both animal exposure and environmental issues role of the occupational human risk, this Special Issue of The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health aims to collect papers focused on occupational exposure to infectious and non-infectious diseases, environmental harmful substances, and their associations with acute/chronic diseases in animal practitioners.

Dr. Elisa Mazzotta
Dr. Valentina Stefanetti
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Keywords

  • one health
  • zoonoses
  • animal practitioners
  • epidemiology
  • infectious disease
  • fungal diseases
  • parasitic disease
  • risk assessment
  • cancer
  • toxicity
  • evidence based

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Zoonotic Problems Reported by Sheep and Goat Farmers and Factors Potentially Contributing to the Occurrence of Brucellosis among Them
by Daphne T. Lianou, Efthymia Petinaki, Charalambia K. Michael, Anargyros Skoulakis, Peter J. Cripps, Eleni I. Katsarou, Elias Papadopoulos, Charalambos Billinis, Angeliki I. Katsafadou, Vasia S. Mavrogianni, Mariangela Caroprese and George C. Fthenakis
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 10372; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610372 - 20 Aug 2022
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The study aimed to investigate the occurrence of zoonotic problems reported by dairy small ruminant farmers in Greece and to study potential associations with socio-demographic characteristics of the farmers and management practices applied in the farms. A countrywide investigation was performed in 325 [...] Read more.
The study aimed to investigate the occurrence of zoonotic problems reported by dairy small ruminant farmers in Greece and to study potential associations with socio-demographic characteristics of the farmers and management practices applied in the farms. A countrywide investigation was performed in 325 sheep and 119 goat farms in the 13 administrative regions of Greece. The selected farms were visited and interviews were conducted with respective farmers. The occurrence of zoonotic problems in the farmers was recorded. A total biosecurity score (0–6) was devised, based on biosecurity practices followed in farms. Sixty-seven farmers (15.10%, 95% confidence intervals (CI): 12.1–18.7%) reported experiencing a zoonotic problem. Most of the farmers (n = 57) (85.1%, 95% CI: 74.76–91.7%, of those with a zoonotic problem) (12.8%, 95% CI: 10.0–16.3%, of all) reported that the zoonotic problem had been brucellosis. Odds ratio for the occurrence of brucellosis in goat farmers was 1.879 (95% CI: 1.051–3.359) compared to the occurrence of the infection in sheep farmers (p = 0.033). For the outcome ‘occurrence of brucellosis’ in sheep farmers, the application of hand-milking, the availability of a separate lambing area and the presence of cats in the farm emerged as significant (p < 0.01); for the same outcome in goat farmers, only the availability of a separate kidding area emerged as significant (p = 0.001). The mean biosecurity score in farms in the continental area of the country was significantly higher than in the islands: 3.45 ± 0.05 versus 2.76 ± 0.28, respectively (p = 0.006), whilst there was also a significantly higher score in farms, where the farmer reported occurrence of brucellosis: 3.68 ± 0.15 versus 3.34 ± 0.06 in farms, where the farmer did not report such an incident (p = 0.042). In farms, where the above predictors prevail, farmers should be warned of an increased potential risk for human infection and biosecurity measures should be implemented and tightened. Full article
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