A ZOONOSIS GAINING GROUND: MELIOIDOSIS,
Abstract
Melioidosis is a nosological entity which was revealed less than half a century ago. Considered at first as a variety restricted to the human species, it was soon found to be more widespread than it had first been supposed. At the same time, it has become evident that a great assortment of animals were tributary to it in a worse manner than the human species. The term 'zoonosis' fits it better than it does any other contagious disease. Long restricted to Southeast Asia, it has, since the War in the Pacific, set up new hotbeds on other continents, while remaining practically limited to the intertropical zone of the planet. Its epidemiological form has evolved. Until recently, it was endemic-enzootic, but now it enters epizootic form and presents an economic problem that remains to be solved. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0836118
Entities
People
- Jacques Fournier
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories