Three people in the UK have contracted a rare disease that is usually confined to dogs, the UK Health Security Agency has confirmed.
Brucella Canis is a bacterial infection that can cause pain, lameness and infertility in dogs, with the illness now concerningly spreading to humans.
The disease is incurable, with 91 dogs known to have caught it this year across the country already. And now it has passed from the canine population to humans for the first time, with Wedny Hayes, from Stoke-on-Trent, believed to have been the first person to be diagnosed with the infection in the UK last year.
The 61-year-old caught the illness from a Belarusian rescue dog that she was fostering, experiencing serious symptoms before she was diagnosed.
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