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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...