brucellosis
布氏杆菌病,布鲁氏菌病,布氏菌病,布鲁氏病
Definitions
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Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.
- : infection with bacteria of the Brucella genus, frequently causing spontaneous abortions in animals and remittent fever in humans.
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New York dairy farmers first documented an infectious disease now known as brucellosis in the 1850s.
The approval of a USDA-developed vaccine in the 1930s also assisted in creating herds free of brucellosis.
Unlike brucellosis in cattle, people die of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and we do not know the long-term impact on those who recover from it.
There is a difference between herd immunity acquired through disease exposure, as with brucellosis, and modern public health programs that use vaccines to create immunity, such as polio and measles.
Cattle that had been exposed to brucellosis were placed in brucellosis herds, while those that hadn’t been were placed in a brucellosis-free herd.