CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS: SUCCESS OF TREATMENT WITH BRUCELLIN

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Pasteurization of every drop of milk produced today would effectively reduce to the minimum tomorrow's new cases of brucellosis in all but the few occupations concerned with handling of infected animals. However, if such a forward step could be taken to protect the general population now, it would scarcely affect thousands of persons who drank raw milk several years ago. Eradication of infection in dairy herds to prevent new cases presents many difficulties. The diagnosis and treatment of thousands of old chronic cases presents many more problems. Of course pasteurization is not yet universal. Travel between the states has increased since 1941. Early in the mobilization after Pearl Harbor certain training units in the field were obliged to purchase food for mess, including raw milk, wherever it could be found. Officers and men could thus easily have contracted brucellosis while in service. Then and now they are still unprotected from

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