Brucellosis Malta to the point of it being referred to as "Maltese fever". Since 2005, due to a strict regimen of certification of milk animals and widespread use of pasteurization, the illness has been eradicated from Malta. Ireland was declared free of brucellosis on 1 July 2009. The disease had troubled the country's farmers and veterinarians for several decades. The Irish government submitted an application to the European Commission, which verified that Ireland had been liberated. Brendan Smith, Ireland's then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, said the elimination of brucellosis was "a landmark in the history of disease eradication
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