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Large-animal confinement dust

Complex organic dust and particulate aerosol in large-animal confinement and feeding operations.

Airborne form

aerosol

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

rhinitissinusitismucous-membrane inflammationasthmachronic bronchitischronic obstructive pulmonary diseasehypersensitivity pneumonitisorganic dust toxic syndromeairway inflammation

Evidence

A CDC/NIOSH-indexed review reports upper and lower respiratory disease associated with large-animal confinement exposures involving organic dust, particulates, microbial components, endotoxins, peptidoglycans, and gases.

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Adverse upper and lower respiratory health effects in exposed agriculture workers are a concern. The aim of this study was to review large animal confinement feeding operational exposures associated with respiratory disease, with a focus on organic dust and related causative factors.

A NIOSH-indexed metagenomic analysis reports that agricultural dust inhalation can cause inflammatory reactions and symptoms that may progress to chronic airway inflammation and diseases including asthma, chronic bronchitis, COPD, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis; it identified bacteria, archaebacteria, fungi, and viruses associated with swine-confinement and grain dusts.

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Inhalation of agricultural dusts causes inflammatory reactions and symptoms such as headache, fever, and malaise, which can progress to chronic airway inflammation and associated diseases, e.g. asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

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