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, Japan, ...

Today, the virus exists in only two laboratories in the United States and Russia, though there is consistent pressure to have even those destroyed. Now it's the turn of rinderpest virus.

Rinderpest was once prevalent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that it will now suspend its efforts to track and eliminate the virus.

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 ...

A vaccine campaign stopped the virus, which was last seen in Kenya in 2001. It is only the second disease, after smallpox, to be declared eradicated.

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 ...

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

The designation of ICAR-NIHSAD as a Category A RHF is a testament to the country’s continued leadership in safeguarding global animal health.

Rinderpest, once known as “cattle plague,” was one of the deadliest livestock diseases before its global eradication in 2011.

Rinderpest, or cattle plague, was declared eradicated in 2011. But many research institutes still have samples of the rinderpest virus in storage. Disease experts want those samples destroyed.

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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 ...