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 ...

In the past, livestock diseases and societal unrest appear to have a rather intricate relationship than one would think. And even though mankind managed to understand and grasp cause and effect better ...

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 ...

Sometime between the 11th and 12th centuries, the measles virus separated from the rinderpest virus, a sort of measles that ...