Brucellosis up 83% in Israel, called a ‘Third world epidemic’

The number of human cases of the zoonotic infection, brucellosis, has increased in parts of Israel by 83 percent, prompting one physician to call it a "Third world epidemic". The Jerusalem Post reports the surge in cases in centered around Beduin inthe South and other Arabs in eastern Jerusalem, Nazareth, Acre and elsewhere in the North. MK ["]