Public Health Rep

On September 11-13, 1957, a Conference on Animal Diseases and Human Health was held in New York City under the joint auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center.The significance of these diseases was discussed from two viewpoints: the direct transfer of disease by parasites or by consumption of diseased meat and milk, and the reduction of food supplies caused by outbreaks of animal disease.Enzootic, epizootic, and zoonotic diseases were considered, along with means by which the diseases are transmitted. Some were examined because they present particular economic and public health threats; others because the study of animal diseases may enlighten students of human afflictions.The conference discussions are represented here in summaries of 16 of the papers. The full proceedings are to be published by the New York Academy of Sciences.Salmonellosis: Incidence and Control / P. R. EDWARDS, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga. -- Newcastle Disease / ROBERT P. HANSON, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and C. A. BRANDLY, University of Illinois, Urbana. -- Pulmonary Adenomatosis in Sheep / FRANCISCO DURAN-REYNALS and KEEN A. RAFFERTY, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., E. JUNGHERR and D. HELBOLDT, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., and A. CUBA-CAPARO, University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru. -- Cat Scratch Disease / JAMES E. PRIER, Merck Sharp & Dohme, West Point, Pa. -- The Pan American Zoonoses Center / BENJAMIN D. BLOOD, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Buenos Aires, Argentina. -- Leptospirosis in Man / THEODORE E. WOODWARD and JOE L. STOCKARD, University of Maryland, Baltimore. -- Rheumatoid Arthritis in Man and Arthritis in Swine / DENNIS SIKES, University of Georgia, Athens. -- Listeriosis: A Public Health Problem / JOHN F. WINN, WILLIAM B. CHERRY, and ELIZABETH 0. KING, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga. \u2013 Animal Disease and Biological Warfare / LT. COL. JACK H. HEMPY, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force, Washington, D. C. -- Orphan Viruses of Man and Animal / G. D. HSIUNG and JOSEPH L. MELNICK, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. -- Viral Hepatitis in Animals and Man / MORRIS POLLARD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. \u2013 Neutralizers of Human Viruses in Animal Serums / MORTON KLEIN, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. -- Brucellosis in Livestock / C. K. MINGLE, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. -- Brucellosis in Man / NORMAN B. MCCULLOUGH, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md. -- Vector Relationships of Arthropod-borne Encephalitides in North America / Roy W. CHAMBERLAIN, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, Montgomery, Ala. -- Changing Picture of Murine Typhus / HARRY D. PRATT, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga.195813542729PMCnull801