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**Chapter 3**

**Abstract**

control measures of the disease.

cattle and intermittent fever in human [2, 3].

**1. Introduction**

**1.1 Animals affected**

exist; namely:

One Health Approach to Control

*Roland Suluku, Jesse P.J. Nyandeboh and Sheku Moiforay*

Brucellosis is a febrile zoonotic disease that presents a severe hazard to humans and domestic animals, which requires a One Health approach to control socioeconomic consequences and public health implications on the people in the country. The majority of the cattle owners are illiterate herds' men with traditional

knowledge of cattle management handed down by their ancestors. Management is free range with no supplementing or balanced diet. Access to veterinary services is almost not available, and local herdsmen treat their animals. Most of these herdsmen do not allow livestock officer visitors to have access to their animals. Processing of meat and milk uses traditional methods, and people consume fresh milk without due regard to sanitary conditions. This behavior has serious public health implications especially when the majority of the beneficiaries live in rural communities. Animals abort, while production decreases due to delayed conception. Local herdsmen confer confidence in people who are knowledgeable about cattle management. Researchers have no data on the disease in the last 50 years. Supportive action from various sectors such as human, animal and environmental health stakeholders backed by social anthropologists using the One Health Platform will provide a conducive atmosphere to engage herdsmen in initiating

**Keywords:** brucellosis, herdsmen, animals, community, One Health

Brucellosis is a common contagious, communicable and One Health endemic zoonotic disease of public health significance with a high rate of morbidity and life sterility [1]. Brucellosis is named after Sir David Bruce because he isolated the causative agent from a soldier while working in Malta. The disease Malta *fever* or *Mediterranean fever* got it named when it affected British military personnel in 1886. Malta fever is a fever condition occasionally caused by *Brucella*, and its most common species *B. abortus* and *B. melitensis*. *B. abortus* causes premature delivery in

Brucellosis is a bacterial disease of the genus *Brucella*, and six different species

Brucellosis in Sierra Leone
