Table 46-4.

Programmed Diseases of Ruminants in United States Compared with Camelids and Other Species

	CLINICAL DISEASES IN CAMELIDS
Programmed Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats	From Natural Transmission	From Experimental Inoculation	Antibody Response in Camelids	Nonruminant Hosts Developing Natural Disease
Bovine brucellosis Brucella abortus	None	Yes	Yes	Humans, horses (fistula of withers), carnivores, marine mammals
Bovine tuberculosis Mycobacterium bovis	Yes (rare)	Yes	Yes	Humans, European badger, brush-tailed possum
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids	None	None	None	None
Scrapie	None	None	Not applicable	None