PPR is a highly contagious trans-boundary animal disease of wild and domestic small ruminants caused by a virus of the same family as the rinderpest virus in cattle and human measles. Affected ...

However post-eradication phase constitutes a great challenge too. Although the rinderpest virus no longer circulates amongst live animals it is still present in a number of laboratories ...

The measles virus is transmitted only between humans. When exactly it emerged has been a hot topic of scientific debate. Its genetic makeup is very similar to that of a rinderpest virus ...