Experts suspect it was at this moment that he was unknowingly exposed to a sneaky bacterium, Brucella suis. Years later, the man began experiencing feverish symptoms, intermittent pain ...

However, there is disagreement about how long the Brucella bacteria can survive in the environment. As a precaution, cattle and bison are kept from interacting for at least 45 days. Transmission ...

In the US, there are only about 80 to 140 brucellosis cases reported each year, and they're mostly caused by B. melitensis and B. abortus. People tend to get infected by eating raw (unpasteurized) ...

Health officials and doctors in Florida have identified the infection as Brucella suis, a bacteria typically found in pigs. The case, detailed in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases ...

The results came back as a Brucella suis infection, which causes a rare bacterial disease in humans and is spread by animals, according to the CDC. There are more than 1 million feral swine living ...

How is the disease spread? An infected animal will spread brucellosis causing bacteria through milk and this can happen for a long period. Transmission occurs through ingestion of brucellosis ...

A Florida man in his 70s developed a rare Brucella suis bacterial infection from handling and eating feral pig meat, which infected his defibrillator years later. Despite multiple hospital visits ...

The government of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, said there are 10,528 cases of brucellosis after a mass test of 68,571 people through Nov. 30 More than 10,000 people in China are reportedly infected ...