Brucellosis Brucellosis Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonosis caused by ingestion of unpasteurized milk or undercooked meat from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions. It is also known as undulant fever, Malta fever and Mediterranean fever. "Brucella" species are small, gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming, rod-shaped (coccobacilli) bacteria. They function as facultative intracellular parasites, causing chronic disease, which usually persists for life. Four species infect humans: "B. abortus", "B. canis", "B. melitensis", and "B. suis". "B. abortus" is less virulent than "B. melitensis" and is primarily a disease of cattle. "B. canis" affects dogs. "B. melitensis" is the most virulent and
The Milk of Human Kindness The Milk of Human Kindness The Milk of Human Kindness is the third album by Canadian mathematician, composer and musician Dan Snaith, released on April 18, 2005 by The Leaf Label and Domino Recording Company. It is Snaith's first album credited under the pseudonym Caribou, previously known as Manitoba until "Up in Flames" in 2003, after which he was forced to rename after a threatened lawsuit by Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators. While the title is a quote from William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", Snaith has been quoted as saying that he read it off the back of a milk