Brucellosis

Authors: Wallace G
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 34, Issue 11, pp 197, Nov 1986
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Cattle, Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant
Subject Terms: Abortion/stillbirth, Animal remedies/veterinary medicines, Bacterial, Biosecurity, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Disease control/eradication, Epidemiology, Notifiable organisms/exotic disease, Reproduction, Immune system/immunology, Reproduction - female, Vaccination, Zoonosis, Public health
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: There is current discussion on the low lever of this disease and the best way to finally eliminate it from New Zealand. Lest it be thought that the way is easy, the following case may make us all aware that the task is to be taken seriously. I was involved in July 1985 when a farmer complained concerning a company Leptospira vaccine. The local veterinarian and I visited the farm where the owner blamed me, as the person on the spot, for his problem of abortion and/or cows not in calf when they should have been. The local veterinarian had vaccinated with the Leptospira vaccine several months previously on a diagnosis that concerned the owner as a milker in the shed. During April 1985 the first abortion was noted followed by several more in April and May 1985. Samples sent to the MAF Laboratory were negative for Brucella and negative for Leptospira. The owner declared that as the vaccination was the only difference to normal farming practice then that was the cause of his problem, in spite of the use of a dead vaccine and a time interval before the abortions. We agreed to disagree over the problem…

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