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Read this article in: Pig Health Most occupational diseases occur at slaughter when people handle potentially infected meat or bodily fluids.
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may experience certain diseases more frequently than the rest of the population. Examples of occupational diseases are silicosis in miners, which occurs as a result of prolonged contact with dust when working in mines or hearing loss caused by increased background noise in people working with equipment without protective equipment.
In pig value chains, people working at each node may also be at risk of occupational disease due to working with pigs. A pig farmer, veterinarian or live animal carrier can be bitten by an animal, but in addition to being a physical threat, pigs can carry diseases that are potentially contagious to humans and can be transmitted through close contact or handling of infected animals (Fig. 1 ). How close this contact is when kept on the farm or during transport depends, in large part, on the type of production, for example, farmers on production farms with hundreds or thousands of animals usually do not have close contact with animals, and even if they do , they usually use protective equipment.
In underdeveloped countries, where pigs are raised mainly on small farms and extensive technologies, often having contact with the environment, infection with diseases that have arisen in pigs is much more common, and the spectrum of these diseases is very wide and includes intestinal worms, brucellosis or infection with zoonotic swine flu viruses (Table 1).
Figure 1. Pathways of zoonotic diseases. Zonoses are infections that can be transmitted from animals to humans, but also from humans to animals. Source: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Table 1. Selected zoonoses of swine origin, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
| Porcine zoonotic diseases transmitted mainly by alimentary means | Porcine zoonoses transmitted mainly through work |
| Transmitted by contact with the pathogen inside meat (Trichinelle spp.) or on its surface (Cryptosporidium spp. Ascaris suum | Transmitted through air ( Coxiella burnetti ), skin ( Brucella suis ) or vectors ( Trypanosoma spp . ), especially for people who most often come into contact with these pathways through their work. Bacillus anthracis |
*The authors do not claim to be complete in this list
However, most occupational infections occur at slaughter, where people handle potentially infected meat or bodily fluids, and here we describe two of the main such infections.
Pig erysipelas is caused by the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which is carried by many mammals, fish and birds around the world, but pigs are its most important reservoir. Still, it is able to remain viable in the soil for up to a month. Pigs can become infected by swallowing it along with contaminated soil or water, and people can become infected if the bacterium penetrates the skin through small scratches or wounds. This can most easily occur during slaughter and subsequent butchering, when butchers are handling sharp objects (i.
e. knives and hooks) and contaminated meat, nasal secretions, urine or excrement without using protective equipment (i.e. e., mail gloves). In pigs, the disease can cause various pathologies, of which diamond-shaped focal skin lesions are the most characteristic for the acute stage of the disease. It is because of this that the disease is often referred to as diamond skin disease (Fig. 2).
Figure 2. Acute diamond skin disease in pigs. (caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae ) diamond-shaped pathologies characteristic of this infection, resembling diamonds in shape, can be observed in the skin. Source: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Fries/ Freie Universität Berlin.
In humans, the infection may last a week or two. However, it can lead to a painful infection of the skin (erysipeloid or erythrema creeper), often on the hands, which can be dealt with fairly easily by a course of antibiotics. If left unchecked, the disease can cause fever, joint pain, septicemia and, in the worst case, if the infection enters the heart, death.
In Central Europe, swine erysipelas is no longer a common problem, as vaccination of sows and replacements against pathogenic strains is widely used on most farms, the use of protective equipment at slaughter is mandatory, and the general level of health of the population is high and therefore it is not so susceptible to infection. Erysipelas, as an occupational disease for slaughter personnel handling raw pig meat, appears to be on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (Musewa et al. underimmunized. The bacterium is easily killed by proper heat treatment (boiling), but care must be taken by those who work with raw meat, including those who cook it.
In healthy pigs, the bacterium is usually found in the nose or mouth, digestive and urogenital tracts. However, some strains (particularly serotype 2) make pigs seriously ill. Anyone working with live pigs (farmers, veterinarians, transporters, slaughterhouse workers) or raw meat (slaughterhouse workers, meat inspectors, pig transporters and cooks) can be exposed to the bacteria.
It penetrates the skin through almost invisible punctures or scratches and can then replicate in the blood (Hughes et al., 2009). In humans, this can lead to septicemia and infection of the brain and, if left untreated, can cause deafness. Different geographic regions are inhabited by different strains, and those circulating in Asia seem to be more disease-causing to humans than those in Western countries. However, deaths also occur in industrialized countries. Vaccines do not exist for either pigs or humans, however, if pigs and/or humans are diagnosed with the disease, antibiotic treatment may be given.
There are many diseases that can occur in humans as a result of the consumption of pork. These illnesses are called foodborne infections (caused by the consumption of pork) because they only occur if the infection is ingested through food. These include Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, Yersinia or toxogenic Escherichia coli, some Staphylococcus aureus, and Mycobacterium avium intracellular (intracellular) complex (MAIC).
In some situations, at home, consumers are chefs and should adhere to the same rules as professional chefs in restaurants: never use the same tools to cut raw and cooked foods, protect skin from cuts and scratches, do not touch mouth and wash hands thoroughly with soap and hot water after each use.
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February 4, 2019
New Year will come according to the Eastern calendar on February 5 - the Year of the Pig. And in Germany, a pig is a symbol of happiness. There is even a Pig Museum, included in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Huge plastic pig at the entrance, toilets in pink colors, cute grunting in the corridors, the word "pig" painted on the walls in all languages of the world... Creators Museum bred this disgusting right in the middle of Stuttgart. Here, pigs are loved and appreciated, sorted thematically, neatly placed on the shelves and gently blown dust off them. At 19In 1992, the Pig Museum (Schweinemuseum) was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest in its pig area. Then the exhibits were only ... 25 thousand. Now there are twice as many. And this is far from the limit!
A pigsty in a museum context
This unusual museum has a 25-year history. Its creator and inspirer, Erika Wilhelmer, is a passionate collector of everything and a well-known restaurateur in the city: "I have been in the restaurant business all my life. In addition, I already have 68 different collections.
Most of them, by the way, could be integrated into the interior restaurant: matchboxes, glasses, coasters for beer mugs, beer bottles.
It was different with pigs. They became a beloved collection, and at some point there were so many of them that they simply had to open a museum. “When I already had about 25 collections, I met one woman from America. She told me that she collects pigs, and then showed me her collection. She had everything at home with pigs: from an oil dish to a towel hook! the bathroom was in piglets! Kitsch, of course, but so cute in this murderous mass, "says Erica Wilhelmer. "And I thought: why shouldn't I start? And so it began. Friends and acquaintances actively supported me. And after three months I already had about a thousand different representatives of the swine world. "
In a former slaughterhouse
This pretty building is over a hundred years old. Previously, it housed the administration of a huge slaughterhouse.
Now - a restaurant where you can taste traditional German cuisine (pork is widely represented on the menu!), And a museum that acquaints visitors with the world history of swine in all its manifestations.
25 themed rooms were inaugurated in 2010. One of the rooms is Sauna ("Sau" is "pig" in an abusive context), in which rubber pigs bask on wooden shelves in mini-chaise lounges. The other is "Sauhaufen" (literally - "a bunch of pigs"; in reality - a "herd of sheep" with a negative evaluative component), in the center of which a whole mountain of plush pigs is elegantly sketched.
Pig myths
Museum employee Holger Siegle especially likes the historical and mythological room: "Here you can read the story of how Odysseus's companions were turned into pigs. Ritual masks from the island of Bali hang there. put on during the ceremony for children, so to speak, entering adulthood.
Of course, this museum and others like it are indispensable for kitsch, says Holger Siegle: “Take at least all these countless piggy banks! there are a lot of rare things on display, valuable from the point of view of art: painting, sculpture, products made of gold, semi-precious stones, glass, crystal, porcelain.
Here you can see not only what you expect from the Pig Museum, but also what you do not expect at all : for example, jewelry or elegant stationery".
Pig reputation
But still, what about the image of a pig in a public context? Is he positive or negative? “The reputation of pigs is pretty damaged,” says Holger Siegle. “This is evidenced by numerous abusive words and expressions in German, English, Italian and many other languages. "("pig"), if desired, can be used to enhance the meaning of the adjective: "saukalt" ("pigly cold") or "sauheiß" ("pigly hot")".
Pig balloon Photo: picture-alliance/blickwinkel/A. Jagel"There is another popular German proverb - "Schwein gehabt", that is, "pigly lucky," recalls a museum employee. pig. And in the Middle Ages, a pig was considered a symbol of prosperity: only wealthy people could afford to keep pigs.
From a philosophical point of view
The founder of the Pig Museum, Erika Wilhelmer, used to see only the good in her “wards”: “At first I didn’t ask philosophical questions.
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