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What is Brucellosis or Rock Fever or Cyprus Fever? How to manage it? What are the precautions to be taken? What are the signs and symptoms? What is the cause of this disease? How to treat it? How can homeopathy help you? All of this answered, in this post and of course our doctors always there to help you. Just fill in your details in the form down below and we will answer all your questions for FREE!

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What is Brucellosis?

Brucellosis is an infectious disease that occurs from contact with animals carrying Brucella bacteria; it spreads from animals to human. There are several different strains of Brucella bacteria. Sometimes they are seen in cows, dogs, pigs, sheep’s, goats and camels.

How brucellosis is transmitted from animals to humans?

Brucellosis is a systemic infectious disease transmitted from certain animals to humans.
• Raw dairy products.
• Cut or scratch on the skin.
• Breathing in contaminated air.
• Eat or drink something containing contaminated bacteria.
• Work on a farm, slaughterhouse workers.
• Living in the Indian subcontinent

What are the signs and symptoms of Brucellosis?

When patient starts noticing such symptoms, it indicates the presence of Brucellosis:

• Fever
• Malaise
• Chills
• Sweating
• Myalgias
• Tiredness
• Arthralgias
• Back pain

• A headache

• Loss of appetite

• Weight loss

• Constipation.
• Abdominal pain

• Sleep disturbance

• Cough
• Testicular pain

• Skin rash.

• Depression
• Arthritis
• Spinal tenderness

• Splenomegaly

• Jaundice
• Central nervous system (CNS)

• Cardiac murmur

• Pneumonia

How is brucellosis diagnosed?

To confirm a diagnosis of brucellosis testing a sample of blood or bone marrow for the brucella bacteria or antibodies.

• Blood culture.
• Bone marrow culture.
• Clean catch urine culture.
• CSF culture.
• Serology.
• Plain x-ray.
• CT or MRI scanning.
• Liver and bone marrow biopsy.

Can brucellosis kill you?

If disease remains untreated complications may occur. These are drugs that can stop the infection. Patient usually needs to take them for 6 weeks or longer. If this illness is not treated or comes back, you could have serious problems in your bones, joints, or heart. 

Can you die from brucellosis?

Death from brucellosis is rare. Most people with brucellosis are expected to survive the disease, especially if person don’t have complications.

Can brucellosis be spread from person to person?

Person-to-person spread of brucellosis is very rare. If infected mothers who are breast-feeding may transmit the infection to their infants. Sexual transmission is reported extremely rare.

How to prevent Brucellosis?

• Wear gloves if you work in the animal processing industry.
• Proper medication management.
• Education, protection clothing, adequate ventilation and disinfection of premises and safe disposal.
• Proper vaccination of animals.
• Pasteurization of milk.
• Avoid raw, uncooked or undercooked meat.

What are the complications of Brucellosis?

• Endocarditis.
• Sacroiliitis.
• Osteomyelitis.
• Epididymo-orchitis.
• Thrombocytopenic purpura.
• Cerebellar ataxia.
• Spinal syndrome.
• Hepatitis.
• Chronic fatigue.
• Abortion.
• Congenital and neonatal infection.
• Meningitis.

For more information, you can visit HealthLine and eMedicine.