Partners Launch Roadmap to Stop Bovine and Zoonotic TB
Discussion Points
- Explain the difference between bovine TB and zoonotic TB.
- Why is it difficult to detect zoonotic TB?
- The article breaks down the roadmap to tackle bovine and zoonotic TB into three categories. Which of the three areas do you feel is most important to tackling TB and why?
- How does the impact of zoonotic TB go beyond just effecting one's health. Explain.
10 comments:
We need to stop the cows from getting sick because thats a lot of food that we need
While the most obvious reason to stop the disease is to prevent people from getting sick, the cattle industries economic stability also depends on it as losing cattle to this disease makes it more difficult for farmers to gain profit which raises beef prices for the general consumer.
Bovine TB is tuberculosis for cows and its transmission to humans is called zoonotic TB.
TB is almost gone but zoonotic is still left behind in people.
1. Report better quality data of zoonotic TB in people
2. "Expand availability of appropriate diagnostic tools and capacity for testing to identify and characterize zoonotic TB in people."
3. Identify and address research gaps in zoonotic and bovine TB
TB affects animals and people with livelyhoods based on livestock
Zoonotic TB is a problem affecting many people every year. 140,000 people fall ill every year with 12,000 dying from zoonotic TB each year. Zoonotic TB is caused by bovine TB. Bovine TB is spread by eating raw, not cooked correctly meat from a diseased animal. Direct transmission can also spread it. Zoonotic TB is difficult to detect, meaning people who have Zoonotic TB are, more often than not, misdiagnosed. Causing them not to get properly treated
It is difficult to detect zoonotic TB because the tools required for an accurate diagnosis are frequently unavailable. TB is also resistant to the antibiotic pyrazinamide which causes cases of zoonotic TB to go misdiagnosed.
bovine tb is what the cows are infected with and then when it infects a humam it is called zoonotic
Bovine TB is the animals disease and zoonotic TB is the human disease. It is hard to detect in South-East Asia and Africa because they don't have the tools necessary to tell what is wrong with the animals and humans. if they misdiagnose the person and give them another medicine to help them with the disease they "have" and the person would get more sick because they didn't get the right medicine.
I think the idea of figuring out how to reduce transmission from animals to humans would be a big factor. If this is stopped this could help prevent a lot of cases of TB. This causes thousands of deaths every year, and the spread from animals is probably one of the leading causes in humans. So if there is anyway to reduce the transmission from animal to hunams it definitely needs to be looked into
Zoonotic TB is spreading throughout the south east Asian and African countires causing 140,000 poeple to be ill every year and 12,000 people dying from TB. This is spread through foods that are not properly treated and direct contact of the animals.
Bovine TB is animal tuberculosis and when it transfers to humans it is called zoonotic TB. Humans can get zoonotic TB when they are eat untreated meat or dairy products from diseased animals or non-heat treated dairy products or raw or improperly cooked meat products. Zoonotic TB is hard to detect because advanced laboratory tools are needed to detect zoonotic TB and are frequently unavailable. Also the disease is resistant to pyrazinamide which is the first used medication to treat TB.
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