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Rinderpest (also
cattle plague or
steppe murrain) was an
infectious viral disease of cattle,
domestic buffalo, and many
other species of even-toed ungulates...
- In the 1890s, an
epizootic of the
rinderpest virus struck all
across Africa, but
primarily in
Eastern and
Southern Africa. It was
considered to be "the...
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Ovine rinderpest, also
commonly known as
peste des pe****
ruminants (PPR), is a
contagious disease primarily affecting goats and sheep; however, camels...
- of the
cattle plague rinderpest.
Plowright received the 1999
World Food
Prize for his
development of
tissue culture rinderpest vaccine (TCRV), the key...
- PMC 10362132. PMID 37483821. Haas, L.; Barrett, T. (12
January 1996). "
Rinderpest and
Other Animal Morbillivirus Infections:
Comparative Aspects and Recent...
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infectious diseases have
successfully been eradicated:
smallpox in humans, and
rinderpest in ruminants.
There are four
ongoing programs,
targeting the
human diseases...
- po****tion died in the
Great Ethiopian Famine (1888 to 1892), and the
rinderpest swept through the area,
destroying much of the herd economy. On 11 October...
- 2013, the ISSG
updated their list to su****de the
recently eradicated †
rinderpest virus, and a few
genus and
species names were altered. Two
criteria were...
- two
diseases have been
eradicated using herd
immunity and vaccination:
rinderpest and smallpox.
Eradication efforts that rely on herd
immunity are currently...
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marked by
epidemics of
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia,
rinderpest (see 1890s
African rinderpest epizootic), and smallpox. The
estimate first put forward...
