Salmonellosis may cause severe dise

Salmonellosis may cause severe disease in cattle and poses a significant zoonotic risk. Farm workers, calf handlers, and their families are clearly at risk of becoming infected by Salmonella spp. during outbreaks of clinical illness, but the risk of exposure goes far beyond farm workers or veterinarians with direct animal contact during outbreaks of disease. Asymptomatic shedding of Salmonella, a characteristic of Salmonella Dublin infection, is also an issue with other common cattle serovars such as Newport and Typhimurium, and creates risk for people in direct contact with the animal, its feces, or milk. There is also risk for foodborne transmission from exposure to contaminated meat from cattle infected with Salmonella Dublin, including dairy beef and cull dairy cows, typically via fecal contamination of the carcass at the time of slaughter [2].