Brucellosis

The full name is Brucellosis, a zoonotic acute and chronic infectious disease caused by Brucella. Also known as Malta fever or wave heat. Its clinical features are chronic fever, hyperhidrosis, joint pain, orchitis, and hepatosplenomegaly. The germ is Gram-negative Pseudococcus. It is widely prevalent in many countries in the world, with high incidence areas in the Mediterranean, Asia, and Central and South America. There are about 500,000 new cases each year worldwide. The prevalence of this disease was serious before the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a specialized prevention and control institution was established. The incidence has significantly decreased. Human and animal brucellosis are endemic, such as Binzhou in Shandong Province, Ci County in Hebei Province, and Shanxi and Liaoning Provinces. The main reason for the rise in the epidemic is "free trade, exchange and movement of livestock without quarantine." In addition, relaxing supervision, management, and disinfection of dairy products such as milk and meat, inability to immunize livestock in a timely and extensive manner, and the dispersal of prevention and treatment teams, all of which are important reasons for the sluggish paralysis of brucellosis. Therefore, we must strengthen the prevention and treatment of brucellosis in order to achieve the goal of long-term basic control nationwide.

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