Brucellosis continues to be a major health problem in Turkey and there has been a 10-fold increase in the mortality from brucellosis during the past decade. This study was undertaken to determine the methods to increase the awereness of the population at risk, about the routes of transmission. Residents of Konya were chosen as the study population since this interland has a high prevalance for brucellosis. The study was carried out by home surveys. The houses which were surveyed were determined by group sampling method according to the population concentration. A thousand individuals (268 male and 632 female) representing 143 interlands ;(7 houses from each interland and 1individual from each house) were interviewed in their houses. individuals who answered one question about the transmission/contamination correctly were accepted as "awere" individuals. or the 1000 individuals 43.6 % correctly answered at least one question about the transmission/contamination routes of brucellosis. Fourteen percent could not provide a correct answer altough they had claimed that they had basic knowledge about the transmission/ contamination routes of brucellosis. No answer could be obtanied from 32.4 % of the surveyed individuals. No correlation was found between the level of education and awareness of brucellosis. The results of this study shows that there is unsatisfactory level of awareness about this:; frequently encountered communicable disease in our society. We suggest that providing population based information will be an important measure to decrease the prevalance of brucellosis.