ABSTRACT
Background: Brucellosis [Malta fever] is a major contagious zoonotic disease, with economic and public health importance
Methods: To assess the effect of meteorological [temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind] and climate parameters on incidence of brucellosis, brucellosis distribution and meteorological zoning maps of Zanjan Province were prepared using Inverse Distance Weighting [IDW] and Kriging technique in Arc GIS medium. Zoning maps of mean temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind were compared to brucellosis distribution maps
Results: Correlation test showed no relationship between the mean number of patients with brucellosis and any of the four meteorological parameters
Conclusion: It seems that in Zanjan province there is no correlation between brucellosis and meteorological parameters