Brucellosis milk products, or by pasteurizing all milk that is to be ingested by human beings, either in its unaltered form or as a derivate, such as cheese. The mortality of the disease in 1909, as recorded in the British Army and Navy stationed in Malta, was 2%. The most frequent cause of death was endocarditis. Recent advances in antibiotics and surgery have been successful in preventing death due to endocarditis. Prevention of human brucellosis can be achieved by eradication of the disease in animals by vaccination and other veterinary control methods such as testing herds/flocks and slaughtering animals when infection
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains () is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower. The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the "Liezi", a Daoist text of the 4th century BC, and was retold in the "Garden of Stories" by the Confucian scholar Liu Xiang in the 1st century BC. It was also used by Mao Zedong in a famous speech in 1945. The myth concerns a Foolish Old Man of 90 years who lived near a pair of mountains (given in some tellings