🚨 How People Get It

• Touching or feeding sick sheep/goats.
• Handling wool, tools, or surfaces with the virus.
• Having cuts or scratches on your skin when touching animals.

👩🏾‍⚕️ Who is at Risk?

• Farmers, herders, shepherds.
• Butchers and abattoir workers.
• Veterinarians.
• Children playing with sick animals.
• People with weak immunity (HIV, cancer, chemotherapy).

⚠️ Signs in Humans

• Red, painful lump on hands, fingers, arms, or face.
• Becomes a blister or sore, may leak fluid, then dries and forms a crust.
• Sometimes: mild fever, tiredness, swollen glands.
• Heals in 3–6 weeks in healthy people.

🚑 When to See a Health Worker

• If sore does not heal after a few weeks.
• If it gets very painful, swollen, or smelly.
• If you have fever or tiredness.
• If you have HIV, cancer, or weak immunity.
• If the sore spreads to other body parts.

🧑🏾‍⚕️ Self-Care

• Keep sore covered with a clean bandage.
• Change bandage when wet or dirty.
• Wash hands with soap and water after touching animals.
• Do not scratch or pick the sore.
• Pain? Take paracetamol or ibuprofen.

🛡️ Prevention

• Wear gloves when touching sheep/goats.
• Cover cuts with plasters/bandages.
• Wash hands after handling animals.
• Vaccinate animals against ORF.
• Clean pens and tools often.
• People with weak immunity should avoid sick animals.