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Brucellosis is Being Wiped Out

Department of Animal Husbandry, Cornell University

ABSTRACT

Twelve years ago, the remaining ten of the 100 counties in North Carolina were placed upon the brucellosis-free, modified, certified list. North Carolina thus became on July 1, 1942, the first state in the nation to suppress this disease. Since that notorious event in farm livestock history, New Hampshire and Maine each have recorded similar achievements and many other states today are nearing their goals.

The brucellosis eradication work in North Carolina began in 1927 as a small research project carried on between the State Department of Agriculture, the Experiment Station and about 25 livestock owners with herds representative of those in the various regions in the state. The eradication program was completed with the aid of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, which in 1934 began paying indemnities for reacting cattle. From that time forward, the demand for herd testing in North Carolina grew rapidly in this state of low initial infection, which in 1934 was said to be but 4%.