Milk and Meat Consumption Patterns

Milk and Meat Consumption Patterns and the Potential Risk of Zoonotic Disease Transmission among Urban and Peri-urban Dairy Farmers in Ethiopia-

By Tilaye Teklewold Deneke, Adam Bekele, Henrietta L. Moore, Tadele Mamo, Gizat Almaw, Getnet Abie Mekonnen, Adane Mihret, Rea Tschopp, Likawent Yeheyis, Catherine Hodge, James L. N. Wood, Stefan Berg & the ETHICOBOTS consortium 

BMC Public Health volume 22, Article number: 222 (2022)

In the Ethiopian dairy farming system, prevalence of zoonotic diseases such as bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is high in the cattle population. This, combined with some risky milk and meat consumption habits, such as raw milk and uninspected raw meat consumption, poses a considerable risk of zoonotic disease transmission. A survey was conducted to investigate milk and meat consumption patterns, and the level of exposure to urban and peri-urban dairy-keeping households for risks of zoonotic disease transmission.  

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