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Outbreak of Occupational Brucellosis at a Pharmaceutical Factory in Southeast China
Author(s) -
Zhan B. D.,
Wang S. Q.,
Lai S. M.,
Lu Y.,
Shi X. G.,
Cao G. P.,
Hu X. L.,
Zheng C. J.,
Yu Z. Y.,
Zhang J. M.,
Fang C. F.,
Gong Z. Y.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zoonoses and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.87
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1863-2378
pISSN - 1863-1959
DOI - 10.1111/zph.12322
Subject(s) - brucellosis , outbreak , environmental health , medicine , personal protective equipment , china , infectious disease (medical specialty) , public health , disease , veterinary medicine , geography , virology , covid-19 , nursing , pathology , archaeology
Summary Brucellosis is an occupational disease affecting workers in butcher shops, the milking and dairy product industry, causing more than 500 000 new cases around the world. As a national statutory B infectious disease in China, morbidity of brucellosis is rapidly increasing in recent years. We report an occupational outbreak of brucellosis infection in a pharmaceutical factory. Exposure was a result of manual operation in the process line, close contact with sheep placentas, insufficient disinfection and repeated using of protective suits and infected by aerosol dissemination. Improved preventive methods, appropriate public health measures and spread of health education would be helpful to prevent the occupational outbreak of brucellosis in future.