Eradication of Brucellosis from Cattle in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1956-1963.

Abstract

It has been the policy of the Administration to establish a cattle industry in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, free, as far as possible, from serious infectious and parasitic diseases (Anderson 1962). Of the bacterial diseases of cattle, brucellosis (Brucella abortus infection, contagious bovine abortion, Bang's disease) is one of the most important because of the economic loss in cattle herds (Technical Committee Report, 1960) and also because the causative organism causes a serious disease in man (Undulant fever).