Alice Catherine Evans in 1917 and published her work in the "Journal of Infectious Diseases" in 1918. She was met with skepticism, particularly because she was a woman and did not have a Ph.D. She warned that raw milk should be pasteurized to protect people from various diseases. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings, and eventually, "Brucella" was confirmed as the disease that caused what was then known as undulant fever and Malta fever. Her findings led to the pasteurization of milk in 1930. As a result, the incidence of brucellosis in the United States was significantly reduced.
Brucellosis "reliably" safe as the alternative. In the decades after Evans's work, it was worked out that this genus, which received the name "Brucella" in honor of Bruce, contained several species with varying virulence. The name "brucellosis" gradually replaced the 19th-century names Mediterranean fever and Malta fever. In 1989, neurologists in Saudi Arabia discovered "neurobrucellosis", a neurological involvement in brucellosis. These obsolete names have previously been applied to brucellosis: "Brucella" species were weaponized by several advanced countries by the mid-20th century. In 1954, "B. suis" became the first agent weaponized by the United States at its Pine Bluff Arsenal near Pine