Brucellosis: Disease you get from infected milk

Dear Daktari, Thank you for your informative articles. I have a query. I started feeling fevers, which would come and go. I first suspected malaria but after it persisted even after I had finished my dose, I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with brucellosis. My doctor told me it is mostly gotten from cow milk. A month early my cow had aborted and its milk production greatly reduced thereafter. After reading online on this disease, it occurred to me I could have picked the disease from my cow. Please educate us on this disease. [Nicholas Wafula, Bungoma County]