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 ...

From the beginning of the outbreak on July 1 to now, a total of 1,267 cases of measles have been confirmed in 38 states so ...

Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, breathing problems, dehydration, and weight loss. The FAO estimates that 90% of a flock can be infected, of which 70% could die. For any farmer -- let alone an ...

But rinderpest is hardly irrelevant to humans. It has been blamed for speeding the fall of the Roman Empire, aiding the conquests of Genghis Khan and hindering those of Charlemagne, opening the ...

The global watchdog for farm-animal trade approved a report certifying that the last 14 countries of the world were free of rinderpest, also called cattle plague. Skip to content Menu ...

If you’ve never heard of rinderpest, it’s likely because you live in America, where thanks to the quarantine of distance and history the disease never established itself.

A menace to the African cattle population for more than a century, the World Organization for Animal Health has declared rinderpest eradicated in Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which grappled with the cattle ...

It appears that there is now a possibility of completely eradicating rinderpest from South Africa, not, however, by means of the bile method—which was originally introduced by Koch, ...

But rinderpest is hardly irrelevant to humans. It has been blamed for speeding the fall of the Roman Empire, aiding the conquests of Genghis Khan and hindering those of Charlemagne, opening the ...

But rinderpest is hardly irrelevant to humans. It has been blamed for speeding the fall of the Roman Empire, aiding the conquests of Genghis Khan and hindering those of Charlemagne, opening the ...