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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...
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  • Ovine rinderpest, also commonly known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR), is a contagious disease primarily affecting goats and sheep; however, camels...
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    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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    infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox in humans, and rinderpest in ruminants. There are four ongoing programs, targeting the human diseases...
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  • 2013, the ISSG updated their list to supersede the recently eradicated † rinderpest virus, and a few genus and species names were altered. Two criteria were...
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    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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    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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    marked by epidemics of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, rinderpest (see 1890s African rinderpest epizootic), and smallpox. The estimate first put forward...
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  • first black veterinary surgeon who played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest. The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of...
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  • of the cattle plague rinderpest. Plowright received the 1999 World Food Prize for his development of tissue culture rinderpest vaccine (TCRV), the key...
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    to leave the land due to the threat of smallpox. An outbreak of either rinderpest or pleuropneumonia greatly affected the Masai's cattle, while an epidemic...
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    population 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...
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    thus annexed it to the Cape province of British South Africa. In 1897, a rinderpest epidemic caused massive cattle die-offs of an estimated 95% of cattle...
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    African buffaloes suffered their most severe collapse during the great rinderpest epidemic of the 1890s, which, coupled with pleuro-pneumonia, caused mortalities...
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    one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest (a disease of even-toed ungulates) in 2011. The term "smallpox" was first...
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    fastest-moving epidemic. Measles is of zoonotic origin, having evolved from rinderpest, which infects cattle. A precursor of the measles began causing infections...
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    in the wild, although samples are retained in laboratory settings. The rinderpest virus, which infected domestic cattle, is now extinct in the wild. The...
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    formed in the 19th century by disease, a combination of rinderpest and the tsetse fly. Rinderpest is believed to have originated in Asia, later spreading...
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    illness causing fever and inflammation of the mucous membranes. Ovine rinderpest (or peste des petits ruminants) is a highly contagious and often fatal...
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  • Marian; Barrett, Thomas (17 December 2005). "Rinderpest — an old and worldwide story: history to c. 1902". Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants : virus...
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    spotted hyena calls in 1972: Spotted hyenas may contract brucellosis, rinderpest[citation needed] and anaplasmosis. They are vulnerable to Trypanosoma...
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    like rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu by helping governments coordinate their responses. One key element is the Global Rinderpest Eradication...
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    died in the 1880s from a cholera epidemic and in 1892 from smallpox. Rinderpest (a bovine viral disease) then wiped out the cattle which were their possessions...
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    for charcoal burning and farming. Kudus were highly susceptible to the rinderpest virus (now eradicated after a vaccination program in domestic cattle)...
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    rule, conflicts, land grabbing, and widespread cattle deaths from the rinderpest viral disease. As early as 1803, the Spanish Crown organised a mission...
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    Jameson Raid of December 1895 as well as transport problems created by the rinderpest of 1896 soon led to a near collapse of the industry. During the Second...
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  • International Agreement signed on 25 January 1924. Earlier, in May 1921, a rinderpest pandemic motivated Delegates at the International Conference for the Study...
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    various diseases. They were victims of the (now eradicated) viral illness rinderpest. Giraffes can also suffer from a skin disorder, which comes in the form...
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    soldiers invading Eritrea turned out to be infected with a disease called rinderpest. It continues to infect 90% of Africa's cattle[contradictory]. Decimation...
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    arranged at least one symposium on the problem of foot-and-mouth and rinderpest. The organization that became the CENTO Institute of Nuclear Science was...
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