Abstract
The epidemiological situation of human and animal brucellosis in 2000, and the control and surveillance programmes in place for domestic ruminants for more than 30 years in France are presented. Nowadays, human brucellosis is rare and the consumption of foreign dairy products has become a more important source of contamination. In cattle, sheep and goat populations, the national control programmes appear successful and the situation is at present close to eradication in these species. However, a new form of brucellosis has emerged in pigs bred extensively in open-air farms. Pigs are infected by Brucella suis biovar 2 and it is assumed that wild boars and maybe hares could be the reservoir. The public health consequences of porcine brucellosis in France are still not known. In other domestic and wild animal species, brucellosis remains accidental.
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