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Milk Borne Diseases -
The important diseases are, tuberculosis, brucellosis and Q fever. Tuberculosis bacterium.

Mycobacterium bovis is consumed in the milk and passes from human intestine to the blood, from which it spreads to most organs.

Brucellosis, a blood-disease is caused by Gram-negative rod, Brucella abortus. When transmitted to man through cow milk, the bacterium infect the blood
-rich organs.

Q fever, caused by rickettsia, Cxiella burnetii is also a milk borne disease.

Other important disorders associated with milk are primary atypical pneumonia, toxoplasmosis, anthrax, streptococcal infections etc.