Rinderpest, a cattle disease that for centuries felled herds in Europe, Africa and Asia and caused periodic human famine, has been eradicated, veterinary epidemiologists announced this week ...

One is smallpox. The other one, you may not have heard of. It's a cattle disease called rinderpest. Even the name sounds scary. It's German for "cattle plague." It was once one of the most ...

In only the second elimination of a disease in history, rinderpest a virus that used to kill cattle by the millions, leading to famine and death among humans has been declared wiped off the ...

If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease - after smallpox - to have been eliminated by humans. Rinderpest was once prevalent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Researchers at the UN said rinderpest, a virus devastating to cattle, has been wiped out, the first such announcement since the end of smallpox more than 30 years ago. John Anderson, head of the ...

The rinderpest virus, shown here infecting a cell, is highly contagious in cattle Scientists have destroyed the UK's laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses.

The announcement in June 2011 that the devastating cattle disease, rinderpest, had been eradicated worldwide marked the end of decades-long campaign that brought governments, international ...

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If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease - after smallpox - to have been eliminated by humans. Rinderpest was once prevalent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.