Brucellosis Animal and human health are inextricably linked.
People depend on animals for nutrition, socio-economic development and companionship.
Yet animals can transmit many different diseases to humans. Diseases transmitted from animals to humans are termed zoonoses and some of them are potentially devastating. Brucellosis is a zoonosis of both public health and economic significance in most developing countries. In many developed countries, the animal disease has been brought under control, which has led to a subsequent decrease in the number of human cases. The occurrence of the disease in humans is largely dependent on the animal reservoir.