Chronic Brucellosis

disease. That it should be so rare in India is surprising considering that Polding (1947) reported that 10 per cent to 50 per cent of aborting Indian cattle in certain rural areas were infected with brucellosis and so long as we have brucellosis among cattle we will have the disease among human beings. The fact however is that even 85 per cent of cases of acute brucellosis are missed, being taken for cases of malaria, typhoid, influenza, rheumatic fever and tuberculosis* and if any case is diagnosed it is after a long illness when the patient has presented the most typical picture of the disease. The illness in a doctor was diagnosed on the