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Some 12,000,000 people in the U.S. are infected with the germs of a strange, lingering, milk-borne disease called undulant fever (brucellosis).* So wrote Health Officer Harold Jerome Harris of Westport, N.Y. last week in a full-fledged book on the subject (Brucellosis; Hoeber...
...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...
Anyone who lives in the country and drinks unpasteurized milk from an infected cow, or pours a spot of tainted cream in his coffee, is liable to come down with a low fever and vague pains. He may feel fine every morning, but in the afternoon his temperature soars, and he gradually loses strength. This may keep up for years. Symptoms range all the way from mild backaches to bone and nerve infections, heart disease, insanity. Hardly an organ in the body is safe from invasion. Victims of brucellosis may be suspected of having tuberculosis, meningitis, arthritis, influenza, glandular disorders...
...germ is present. Treatment is complex, depends on the symptoms. Best specific remedies: 1) injections of a specially prepared vaccine made from dead Brucellae; 2) sulfanilamide. Treatment must be continued, for a long period of time, for often a patient who seems to recover comes down with the same fever four or five years later...
...news of the President's illness was made public on Tuesday when his regular press conference was canceled. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early announced that he went to bed that afternoon with a "gastro-intestinal disorder" and a degree and a half of fever...