Nine residents of Crimea, Russia became infected with brucellosis after an outbreak of the disease in cows

In the Belogorsk region of Crimea, an outbreak of brucellosis occurred among cows in one of the farms. As a result, nine people became infected, Interfax reports, citing the chairman of the State Veterinary Committee of the republic, Valery Ivanov. According to him, the first case of brucellosis was detected in a farmer of one of the farms on December 12. All identified 130 diseased animals were destroyed. Similar measures were taken in the neighboring farm. “This is one farm, and we understood that perhaps the disease had spread to a neighboring farm literally across the road - to another farm. We conducted a study together with the Rosselkhoznadzor, nine more sick animals were identified, which have also already been killed,” said Valery Ivanov. He stressed that all infected cows were brought to Crimea from another region. There had been no brucellosis in the republic for 20 years, so there was no one to infect animals. The area ...