Can humans get Johnes disease?
This is a very controversial subject. There is a human disease called Crohn’s disease that resembles Johne’s disease. Crohn’s disease most commonly affects people 15 to 30 years old. It is a chronic diarrheal disease that has no known cause and no known cure. Recent reports in the medical literature indicate that 25 to 75% of patients with Crohn’s disease test positive for M. paratuberculosis. A few laboratories have grown M. paratuberculosis from a few Crohn’s patient specimens. However, no connection has been shown between contact with animals with Johne’s disease or milk consumption and Crohn’s disease. A detailed discussion of this topic can be found on the “Zoonotic Potential” page of this website.
This is a very controversial subject. There is a human disease called Crohn’s disease that resembles Johne’s disease. Crohn’s disease most commonly affects people 15 to 35 years old. It is a chronic diarrheal disease that has no known cause and no known cure. Recent reports in the medical literature indicate that 30 to 75% of patients with Crohn’s disease test positive for M. paratuberculosis. A few laboratories have grown M. paratuberculosis from a few Crohn’s patient specimens. However, no connection has been shown between contact with animals with Johne’s disease or milk consumption and Crohn’s disease. A detailed discussion of this topic can be found in “Zoonotic Potential” on this website.
This is a very controversial subject. There is a human disease called Crohn’s disease that in some ways resembles Johne’s disease. The cause of this chronic inflammatory bowel disease is not known and there is no known cure. A few laboratories have grown M. paratuberculosis from a few Crohn’s patients’ specimens but there is no evidence that the organism caused the disease. No connection has been shown between contact with animals with Johne’s disease or milk consumption and Crohn’s disease.
