Brucella Infection: A Major Public Health Concern

Abstract

Zoonotic infectious diseases are common in societies where poverty is widespread, and where people rely on animals for their livelihood, that severely hinders livestock productivity and human health worldwide, particularly in the developing world and have been historically neglected by decision makers over the decades. WHO has identified a subgroup of eight endemic or neglected zoonotic diseasesanthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, Taenia solium cysticercosis, hydatid disease, leishmaniasis, rabies, and human African trypanosomiasis.