PRO/AH/EDR> Brucellosis – Algeria, Egypt: human, animal

Brucellosis — Egypt
In a press communique to Elyoum Elsabie newspaper, the director of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt, has mentioned that the total number of registered brucellosis (Malta fever) cases in humans reached 4065 cases during last year (2015). He also stressed the need for community health education about the practices of drinking raw milk and cheese preparations and related products from unpasteurised milk; in addition to training of animal farm workers and butchers