Word: brucellae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether acute or chronic, the disease rarely kills anybody. But it often makes a patient wish he were dead. Between 11 and 20% of U.S. dairy cattle are infected with the undulant fever organism in one of its three forms. Most dangerous to man is Brucella suis. Experts used to guess that 10% of U.S. citizens were infected with Brucella and that 1% of those infected were ill with undulant fever at any one time. But the work of the Indiana doctors may eventually prove that there are many more than that...
Undulant fever may smolder for years, suddenly flare up into a complex disease resembling typhoid, malaria or tuberculosis. It is caused by any of three germs of the group Brucella (named after Sir David Bruce, who discovered the strain in 1886). Brucellae infect cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, cause a disease known as contagious abortion. Between 11 and 20% of all U.S. cattle are infected, causing a yearly loss to farmers of some $80,000,000. The disease is transmitted to man through milk, butter, cheese, and through handling of infected carcasses; it is not passed from one person...
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