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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 284313" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>You may want to check out the link provided. The disease is shed in the manure, most animals pick it up as calves through nursing mothers whose udders are contaminated by being penned in muddy, manure laden corrals. Another significant source of infection is ponds. Any bovine animal can contract this disease (it may - keyword here being MAY - be tranmissible to humans, as well). Chrones Disease in humans bears a lot of resemblence to Johnes disease, but that could be just concidence. There is no difinitive answer yet, on whether it is transmissible or not. It is a very slow progressing so it usually takes 2 years or more to start manifesting symptoms, such as diarrhea and rapid weight loss. Johnes disease causes thickening of the small intestine which, in turn, prevents absorbtion of nutrients, and the diarrhea is a result of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 284313, member: 539"] You may want to check out the link provided. The disease is shed in the manure, most animals pick it up as calves through nursing mothers whose udders are contaminated by being penned in muddy, manure laden corrals. Another significant source of infection is ponds. Any bovine animal can contract this disease (it may - keyword here being MAY - be tranmissible to humans, as well). Chrones Disease in humans bears a lot of resemblence to Johnes disease, but that could be just concidence. There is no difinitive answer yet, on whether it is transmissible or not. It is a very slow progressing so it usually takes 2 years or more to start manifesting symptoms, such as diarrhea and rapid weight loss. Johnes disease causes thickening of the small intestine which, in turn, prevents absorbtion of nutrients, and the diarrhea is a result of that. [/QUOTE]
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