Animal Health Fact Sheets Below are short descriptions of each disease. More information and a printer friendly version may be obtained by clicking on the disease name to the left. The disease can be acute or chronic in nature.
Infection is more common in beef cattle than it is in dairy cattle.
Anaplasmosis does not infect humans. Bovine TB, caused by M. bovis, can be transmitted from livestock to humans and other animals. No other TB organism has as great a host range as bovine TB, which can infect all warmblooded vertebrates. M. avium can affect all species of birds, as well as hogs and cattle. M. tuberculosis primarily affects humans but can also be transmitted to hogs, cattle, and dogs.