The Department of Livestock Development (DLD) is looking into whether milk from a sick goat could be behind a undulant 12-year-old boy being infected with brucellosis, also known as fever. INITIAL INSPECTION veterinarians deputy chief Thaneeto, along with a team of and health workers, inspected goat farms in the Hua Mark area in Kapi district on July 7 to check whether livestock there were infected wit brucellosis. around4ogoats atseveral farms officials collected blood sam in the area, Sorawit said. The move came after a 12-year-old boy who is lives in the Hua Mark area of Bangkok tested positive for brucellosis. a SUSPICIOUS MILK interviewed DLD chief Ayut Harintranon said health officials the boy's family and were told he may have drunk unpasteurised milk from an infected goat. Ayut said brucella bacteria can E also infect other livestock and dogs. Brucellosis infection can cause pregnant livestock to have miscarriages or be born prematurely. INFECTIOUS DISEASE through contact The disease can spread to humans M with explained. People infected with unpasteurised milk, Ayut accompanied by a brucellosis usually develop a fever, joints. headache and pains in the muscles and