Rinderpest, which means “cattle plague” in German, is highly contagious and has a fatality rate of about 80 percent. It is the only animal disease to have been eradicated; smallpox occurs only ...

Rinderpest can wipe out entire herds of cattle in a matter of days. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) announced the global eradication of rinderpest on 25 May 2011. For centuries, ...

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PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) - The cattle disease rinderpest that has devastated animal herds for centuries no longer exists, making it the first ever animal illness to be eradicated by humankind ...

Scientists have eradicated a killer virus in the wild, only the second time such a feat has been achieved in human history.

It’s official. The “cattle plague” known as rinderpest has been eradicated, the only other disease besides smallpox to achieve the gone-for-good status. Though the disease is obscure to ...

A global effort has eradicated the cattle disease rinderpest, which caused the starvation of millions of people, making it the second disease after smallpox to be wiped out by humankind, world ...

But there is another type of rinderpest virus that causes disease in sheep and goats. Other than the fact it is highly contagious and highly lethal, there simply isn't much known about the virus. That ...

NEW DELHI: India has joined an elite global group dedicated to the containment of the Rinderpest virus, commonly referred to as "cattle plague." This group includes facilities from the UK, USA ...

The rinderpest virus is being preserved in a number of laboratories, mainly for the production of vaccines in case the disease should reappear. The IAEA has been asked by the Joint FAO/OIE Commission ...