This article presents suggestions toward safer animal handling utilizing the results of a qualitative study of women dairy farmers in Finland. A major proportion of injuries (43%) occur in livestock-related work in Finnish agriculture. An even greater proportion of women's farm injuries (77%) is related to animals. We investigated the working conditions often women dairy farmers. Data were coll...

Koala populations in Australia are declining due to threats such as chlamydiosis, wild dog predation and vehicle collision. In the last decade, grazing livestock emerged anecdotally a threat koala survival areas where habitat land overlap. This is first study investigating significance of livestock-inflicted injuries deaths over large spatial temporal scale. We investigated outcome, scale, freq...

echinococcosis is the major helminthic parasitic infection in iran. the health hazard and economic loss in man and livestock is significant. in this study 3 major topics as the prevalence of hydatid cyst in human population, in livestock and echinococcosis in stray dogs, were studied. total of 1114 serum samples in different age groups in sanandaj and divandareh area of kurdestan province in we...

This descriptive and analytic study used a secondary data set to describe and compare medication use and agricultural injury experiences between younger (≤54 years old) and older (≥55 years old) farmers; and to examine the relationship between the use of specific classes of medication and reported agricultural injury. The study sample included a total of 316 farmers, age 26 to 80 years old; 103...

context crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a fatal viral disease which has 30% to 80% mortality rate. in endemic areas, livestock handlers, skin processors, veterinary staff, livestock market employees, farmers, and health care staff are at risk. diagnosis is made based on clinical manifestations, epidemiologic factors, and laboratory tests. here, we reviewed the epidemiology, clinical m...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) estimates that 32,808 non-fatal injuries occurred to youth under 20 years of age on U.S. farms during 1998. These data, however, do not allow for the identification of the race of the farm operator. Therefore, in 2001, the Minority Farm Operator Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey (M-CAIS) was conducted to provide an overview of...

conclusions results of this study indicate that selective brain cooling is an effective method of decreasing icp in rats; however, the deeper hypothermia caused a greater decrease in icp three hours after hypothermia induction. background experimental approaches have been promising with the use of therapeutic hypothermia after traumatic brain injury (tbi) whereas clinical data have not supporte...

Attacks on humans by wild pigs (Sus scrofa) have been documented since ancient times. However, studies characterizing these incidents are lacking. In an effort to better understand this phenomenon, information was collected from 412 wild pig attacks on humans. Similar to studies of large predator attacks on humans, data came from a variety of sources. The various attacks compiled occurred in se...