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milk sickness
milk sicknessn.1. An acute, now rare disease characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot.2. See tremble.milk sickness n 1. (Pathology) an acute disease characterized by weakness, vomiting, and constipation, caused by ingestion of the flesh or dairy products of cattle affected with trembles 2. (Veterinary Science) vet science another name for trembles1 milk′ sick`ness
n. a disease of humans caused by consuming milk from cattle that have eaten poisonous weeds. [1815–25, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  milk sickness - disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroottremblesanimal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings | | 2. | milk sickness - caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from tremblesdisease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
EncyclopediaSeebrucellosismilk sickness
milk sick·nessa disease of humans caused by ingesting contaminated milk from cows suffering from trembles; clinical manifestations include severe vomiting, labored breathing, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death; recovery from nonlethal illness is slow. Synonym(s): lactimorbusmilk sicknessn.1. An acute, now rare disease characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot.2. See tremble.brucellosis A highly contagiously infection by Brucella spp, primarily B abortus (less commonly, B melintensis and B suis), caused by skin contact with infected cattle, goats and sheep or consumption of contaminated milk or meat.
Epidemiology
Primarily affects veterinarians, farmers, wool sorters and dairy workers, who are occupationally exposed to infected animals, meats or spore-laden wool.
Clinical findings
Fever, sweating, malaise, aches, meningitis, abscesses of brain, liver, spleen, cholecytitis, endocarditis, arthritis, spondylitis, osteomyelitis, erythema nodosum, inhalation pneumonitis.
Management
Doxycycline, rifampin for 6+ weeks.
Prognosis
Generally less than 5%.milk sick·ness (milk siknĕs) Human disease caused by ingesting contaminated milk from cows suffering from trembles; clinical manifestations include severe vomiting, labored breathing, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death; recovery from nonlethal illness is slow. LegalSeeSicknessmilk sickness
Related to milk sickness: Abraham Lincoln, white snakeroot, tremetolSynonyms for milk sicknessnoun disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakerootSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from tremblesRelated Words |