Zheng-Yu Gong
Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Title: Occupational outbreak of brucellosis at a pharmaceutical factory in China: An epidemiological investigation
Biography
Biography: Zheng-Yu Gong
Abstract
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 word. In China, brucellosis is a national statutory B infectious disease and rapidly increases in recent years. We report an outbreak of brucella placenta 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.