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 ...

The deadly cattle disease – rinderpest – is on the verge of extinction. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is ending all field operations against the disease and is expected to ...

Within the next 18 months, one of the most devastating animal diseases ever is expected to be declared eradicated. Rinderpest has been around for thousands of years. The viral infection – while ...

The rinderpest virus is the second virus to have been eliminated by humans, according to a BBC report. A virus that affected cattle, domestic buffalo, and some species of wildlife, it was quite ...

RINDERPEST AMONG CATTLE. Share full article. Feb. 9, 1885. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 9, 1885, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

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, ...

Rinderpest is one of the most lethal cattle diseases known to science. Typically, seven out of 10 cattle infected with the disease would die. But in the 1960s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Takematsu and Morimoto1 have reported cultivation of lapinized rinderpest virus in roller-tube cultures of rabbit lymph node, spleen and bone marrow; but details are not available to us, and it is ...