Mapping a Zoonotic Disease

Anglo-American Efforts to Control Bovine Tuberculosis before World War I

Bibliographic Data

ID3924938
AuthorsSusan D Jones (0000-0001-6956-278X, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume19
Pages133-148
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsiris (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/649398
PMID15478271
OpenAlexW2085253426
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Before World War I, British and American public health officials correlated tuberculosis in dairy cattle with severe infections in milk-drinking children. They traced bacteria in municipal milk supplies, mapped the locations of infected animals, and sought regulatory power to destroy them. Consumers, milk producers, municipal officials, veterinarians, and physicians all influenced the shape of antituberculosis regulations. Many condemned pasteurization as too costly and as masking tubercular contamination and poor sanitation. They saw milk-borne tuberculosis as an environmental as well as a bacteriological problem. Similar to other zoonotic diseases such as BSE, bovine tuberculosis blurred the boundaries between urban and rural, production and consumption, and human and animal bodies

Ancient history · Biology · Bovine tuberculosis · Business · Disease · Environmental health · First world war · Geography · Mycobacterium bovis · Mycobacterium tuberculosis · Pasteurization · Pathology · Public health · Sanitation · Sociology · Tuberculosis · Veterinary medicine · Zoonotic disease · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Historical Medical Research and Treatments · History · Medicine · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Food Science

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