Abstract: [Objective]To understand the mastery status of brucellosis related knowledge and potential risk behavior of brucellosis infection in herdsmen in Lingqiu County of Datong City of Shanxi Province, and to provide references for implementing the targeting healthy publicity and education associated with brucellosis. [Method]A total of 70 cattle farmers were selected from Lingqiu County by simple random sampling method. A questionnaire was designed to investigate the brucellosis associated prevention and control knowledge as well as high-risk behaviors of the herdsmen. [Result]77.14% of the surveyed farmers had no awareness of feeding the newly purchased cattle herd separately for the consideration of epidemic prevention, and 45.71% of them had no vaccination behavior against brucellosis for the cattle herd. Although a series of propaganda intervention measures associated with brucellosis were carried out in recently years in this region, there was still a large room for improvement. [Conclusion]The awareness rate of brucellosis related knowledge among cattle farmers in Lingqiu County is relatively high. However, there is still a big gap between the planning target and the reality, indicating a potential risk of brucellosis infection. Accordingly, in the following work, the propaganda intervention against brucellosis targeting the cattle farmers should be strengthened to improve the awareness of brucellosis protection for this specific population.

Key words: brucellosis, sampling survey, intervening measure