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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Seven years ago, the global public health community declared the eradication of rinderpest, a severe viral disease of cattle. But today, Bulgaria says it's dealing with an outbreak of ovine rinderpest ...

Update: The World Organisation for Animal Health declared today that rinderpest is now eradicated from the surface of the Earth. At the organisation’s 79th annual general session in Paris, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - 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 ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization will announce today that the cattle-plague Rinderpest has been officially eradicated from planet earth. This is a huge, huge achievement for humanity.

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 Americans, the ...

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, France ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria on Thursday reported the first outbreak in the European Union of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), on livestock farms in the village of Voden in ...

Labs are being encouraged to sequence their remaining samples of the devastating livestock virus — and then get rid of them for good. Scientists who work with the deadly livestock virus rinderpest — ...

The rinderpest epizootic produced in the Cape Colony a crisis of knowledge about animal disease and its control. The Cape government drew on the knowledge and expertise of veterinary and medical ...