How to Use brucellosis in a Sentence

brucellosis

noun
  • And brucellosis does have chronic forms that can hang around for years.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Feed grounds help keep elk from raiding cattle feedlines and haystacks — and from spreading brucellosis.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Elk in this region are reservoirs for brucellosis, which can cause cows to abort and force ranchers to quarantine herds.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The shipment includes bison and their descendants who were trapped to prevent the spread of the disease brucellosis.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
  • In humans, a brucellosis infection can cause undulant fever and fatigue.
    — Jim Robbins Michael Hanson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • They were intended to be a line of defense against naturally occurring pathogens such as brucellosis and anthrax, as well as bubonic plague.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The leaking pathogens were bacteria that cause brucellosis, a common livestock disease that can lead to chronic illness or even death in humans if not treated.
    — David Willman, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The cultural herd passes through a quarantine system to prevent the spread of brucellosis, a disease feared by cattle ranchers.
    — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Most bison that leave the park during their winter migration to feeding grounds outside the park are shot by hunters or shipped to slaughter because of worries about brucellosis.
    — Matthew Brown, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Physicians feared that tuberculosis, anthrax and brucellosis would also be spread by dogs and rats who became pathogen carriers.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
  • It may also have been born infertile and susceptible to a host of canine diseases, such as parvovirus, distemper, and brucellosis.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • As folks saw in the midseason finale, a bacterial disease called brucellosis threatened to wipe out his cattle, forcing him to send the herd down to Texas.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers found samples of Brucella melitensis, which is a harmful bacteria that causes the disease brucellosis.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2018
  • During the March meeting, several members asked about nutritional issues as well as brucellosis.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
  • Others want to use the rats for detecting salmonella, brucellosis (a disease that mainly affects livestock) and cancers of various kinds.
    — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Elk, which are also infected with brucellosis, move freely within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
    — Brett French, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The researchers found the main threats were loss of food supply to climate change or overgrazing and brucellosis, a disease that can lead to swollen joints and reproductive issues that can limit calf and adult survival.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
  • But, short of vaccinating for brucellosis or dropping caribou feed, predators are the only problem that can be addressed immediately.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
  • The plant, which is ringed by high-rise apartment complexes on the southern bank of the Yellow River, was set up for the production of vaccines to prevent brucellosis.
    — David Willman, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • However, much of this population carries brucellosis, a disease that causes cows to miscarry and which can easily be passed on to commercial livestock.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2014
  • Montana livestock officials restrict when and where Yellowstone bison can migrate to prevent them from spreading the disease brucellosis to cattle.
    — Washington Post, 24 July 2017
  • The relocation idea came up in the midseason finale when a bacterial disease called brucellosis threatened to wipe out the Yellowstone cattle if they weren't moved soon.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 June 2023
  • Officials say the plan includes putting 110 bison into brucellosis quarantine to produce disease-free bison.
    — USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Booming populations of feral dogs feast on unclaimed carcasses, increasing the spread of brucellosis, distemper and rabies.
    — William H. Funk, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2016
  • The student—the university never released his or her identity—recovered from brucellosis but was seriously ill for several months.
    — Susan Scutti, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2014
  • Yellow fever, various forms of influenza, rabies, brucellosis and Lyme disease are among those that pass from animals to humans, often via a vector such as a rodent or an insect.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Feral hogs can also carry diseases, such as pseudorabies, a contagious infectious disease that is fatal for dogs, as well as swine brucellosis, a bacterial infection.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The risk that bison will spread brucellosis—the disease that causes miscarriages in livestock and which can be transmitted between the two species—also alarms many ranchers and fuels their resistance to the idea of free-roaming bison.
    — Louise Johns, Wired, 12 June 2021
  • Bison routinely leave Yellowstone and head north into Montana each winter, raising concerns that the animals could spread brucellosis to cattle.
    — CBS News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Another concern ranchers have with bison is a disease called brucellosis, which causes miscarriages and infertility in livestock, and can be transmitted to humans.
    — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020

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