Discover the devastating history of measles, a highly contagious disease that can kill, and how vaccination can prevent it.

It might be surprising to learn that the disease is considered eliminated by U.S. health officials. In fact, it's been labeled that way since 2000. That's because for experts, there's a difference ...

1997). Etwa Zweidrittel des Rinderbestandes im Allgäu wurden im 19. Jahrhundert ein Opfer der Rinderpest. Beim Deutschen Fleckvieh wird die genetische Hornlosigkeit seit 1974 züchterisch bearbeitet.

Rubeolais caused by the measles virus, morbillivirus, and is thought to have evolved from the rinderpest virus which infects ...

But that was the first of only two devastating viral diseases ever to have been wiped off the face of the earth. The other was Rinderpest. Rinderpest, or Cattle Plague, first appeared in South Africa ...

This report was no different. It started with the Anglo Boer War, described the rinderpest cattle plague, the antagonisms with the British Empire, the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism, the formation of ...