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{{Short description|Horse disease that can be transmitted to humans}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox medical condition (new) | name = Glanders Disease | synonyms = Equinia, farcy,<ref name=Wilkinson/> malleus<ref name="Andrews"/> | image = NHR April1917 p.76.jpg | caption = The design of the water trough inhibits the dissemination of glanders disease among the watering horses, Philadelphia, Penn., U.S., 1917. | pronounce = | field = | symptoms = | complications = | onset = | duration = | types = | causes = | risks = | diagnosis = | differential = | prevention = | treatment = | medication = | prognosis = | frequency = | deaths = }} '''Glanders''' is a contagious, [[zoonosis|zoonotic]] [[infectious disease]] caused by the [[bacteria|bacterium]] ''[[Burkholderia mallei]]'', which primarily occurs in [[horse]]s, [[mule]]s, and [[donkey]]s, but can also be contracted by dogs and cats, pigs, goats, and human beings. The term ''glanders'' derives from the [[Middle English]] word ''{{lang|enm|glaundres}}'' and from the [[Old French]] word ''{{lang|fro|glandres}}'', which both denote ''glands''.<ref name="dic"/> Other terms for the glanders disease are the {{langx|la|malleus}}, the {{langx|es|muermo}}, the {{langx|de|Rotz}}, and the {{langx|no|snive}}. Glanders is endemic in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Central and South America. Elsewhere, glanders has been eradicated in North America, Australia, and most of Europe, by way of the zoological observation and destruction of infected and sick animals and quarantine restrictions upon the importation of said animals. Occurrences of glanders have not been reported in the U.S. since 1945, until a laboratory accident in 2000, wherein a laboratory researcher was accidentally exposed the ''[[Burkholderia mallei]]'' bacterium.<ref name="cdc1"/> In the U.K., glanders is a [[notifiable disease]], and there have been no occurrences reported since 1928.<ref name="not"/>
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