ORGANIZATIONAL-NETHODICAL PRINCIPLES OF ANTI-BRUCELLOSIS 
MEASURES IN UKRAINE SSR ae 
BY 
S. R. Didovets, P. N. Zhovanik, A. M. Teitel, G. K. Bozhke 
During the first years after the great national war, the 
brucellosis of animals was registered in all regions of the 
Ukrain, SSR. This disease caused significant economical loss 
to the farms. 
The greatest number (1615) of places having brucellosis of 
the cattle was revealed in 1952. During the same year, 67% of 
the investigated animals suffered from brucellosis. 
Until 1957, health measures against brucellosis in the 
republic were based mainly on systematic diagnostic investiga- 
tions of the animals, the slaughtering of all cattle which gave 
positive result for brucellosis, except the highly productive 
cows which were concentrated in special isolations; and organi- 
zation of raising of healthy young ones in the complex with other 
veterinary-Sanitary and agricultural measures recommended at 
that time for controlling brucellosis. 
From 1957, in many farms having this disease, vaccine from 
the strain 19 was given to the cattle against brucellosis as a 
prophylactic measure. In the farms of the Kharkov region, in 
addition to the vaccine from the strain 19, the vaccine UNIIEV 
was also used (P. N. Zhovanik). 
With the increase of the number of cattle in the collective 
and state farms, these measures were found to be labor- 
intensive and did not give the expected effect. 
The measures undertaken during the past 10 years on the 
liquidation of brucellosis in the Ukranian SSR, somewhat differ 
from the ones which have been recommended. However, the modi- 
fication suggested by us regarding the instructions, neither 
complicates nor weakens the conventional measures against bru- 
cellosis in the Soviet Union, on the contrary, makes it more 
accessible in the organization and more effective. 
