The Ethiopian government, along with a team from FIC and the Tufts School of Medicine, in July celebrated the official eradication of the rinderpest virus from the country, once a hotspot for the ...

Rinderpest, also known as cattle plague, is a contagious viral disease affecting several species of wild and domestic cloven-hoofed animals (animals with a hoof split into two toes) notably cattle ...

Others are Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), Contagious Bovine Pleuro pneumonia (CBPP), Rinderpest and Malignant catarrhal fever. Proper care of the dairy cattle is needed for maximum production that ...

Rinderpest devastated cattle in Africa during the 1890s ... said the end of rinderpest would mark the beginning of a new war on other diseases. "The success we have achieved with rinderpest ...

So far there is no evidence that it causes any disease in cattle. There's one obvious lesson from rinderpest eradication - that declining measles immunity will mean humans are susceptible to other ...