Brucellosis — Israel
An industrial, cooperative dairy farm in a southern Kibbutz, HaDarom (South) district, has been found to be infected with _Brucella melitensis_. Of the 1350 lactating cows, 12 per cent (135 animals) have been found positive by the CF [complement fixation] test; all positive cows have been separated and subsequently culled. The causative bacterium has been isolated and identified from the blood and placenta of an aborting heifer. There have been 2 additional abortions (registered but not
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