Risk factors for Brucellosis

A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors for brucellosis include:

• Eating or drinking unpasteurized dairy foods, especially when traveling
• Working with domesticated animals and livestock, especially sheep, goats, cattle, deer, elk, and pigs, or their excretions, secretions, or carcasses
• Sex: male (possibly due to occupational exposure among farmers, ranchers, veterinarians, people working in tanneries, and slaughterhouse workers)