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Health for the farmer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanford, C. F. (C Fred)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, U.K. : Farming Press, 1991.
Subjects:
Occupational and industrial health and safety
Accidents, Occupational > prevention & control > Popular Works.
Agriculture.
Occupational Diseases > Popular Works.
Table of Contents:
  • The farmer as a member of the community
  • Farming accidents
  • Tractors
  • Fixed equipment
  • Silage
  • Slurry
  • Ladders
  • Electricity
  • Chemicals
  • Animals
  • Guns
  • General safety
  • Trauma
  • Children
  • Climatic risks
  • Rain and water
  • Cold
  • Sun and heat
  • General health
  • Arterial diseases
  • Respiratory diseases
  • Stomach and bowel disease
  • Urinary tract
  • Diabetes
  • Tuberculosis
  • Gynaecological problems
  • Breast cancer
  • Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
  • Dusts, sprays and gases.
  • Dusts
  • Mists and sprays
  • gases
  • Dangerous irritants and poisons
  • Gases
  • Nitrogen oxides
  • Hydrogen sulphide
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Ammonia
  • Dusts
  • Asbestos
  • Lime
  • Sprays
  • Organochlorine pesticides
  • Carbamate pesticides
  • Phenoxy compound herbicides
  • Dipyridlium herbicides
  • Triazine, urea compound and anilide herbicides
  • Diseases due to allergy or immunity
  • Farmer's lung
  • Asthma
  • Other allergic conditions
  • Eyes
  • Nose
  • Skin
  • Wasp and bee stings
  • Zoonotic infections
  • Viral infection.
  • Cowpox
  • Encephalitis (St Louis, central European, etc.)
  • Bacterial infection
  • Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
  • Hand, foot and mouth disease
  • Louping ill
  • Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
  • Newcastle disease
  • Orf
  • Rabies
  • Swine vesicular fever
  • Vesicular stomatitis
  • Bacterial infection
  • Anthrax
  • Bordetella
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacter
  • Cat scratch fever
  • Corynebacteriaceae
  • DF-2
  • Erysipelas
  • Glanders
  • Leptospirosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme disease
  • Melioidosis
  • Pasteurella multocida.
  • Bubonic plague
  • Rat bite fever
  • Salmonella infection
  • Streptococcal infection
  • Tetanus
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularaemia
  • Yersiniosis
  • Rickettsial infection
  • Q fever
  • Chlamydial infection
  • Psittacosis
  • Fungal or mycotic infection
  • Ringworm
  • Histoplasmosis
  • Other fungal or mycotic infections
  • Zoonotic parasites
  • Protozoa
  • Worms
  • Prevention of zoonotic disease
  • Appendices: Some prescribed occupational diseases
  • Notifiable infectious diseases
  • Face masks and respiratory helmets.