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.

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, ...

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 deadly cattle disease – rinderpest – is on the verge of extinction. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is ending all field operations against the disease and is expected to ...

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Rinderpest was a lesson in the porousness of borders: It spread around the world, over thousands of years, wherever cattle were herded or traded.

Rinderpest, once a major scourge of cattle and similar wild and domesticated species, such as yaks and buffalo, cut a wide swath across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Over the millennia, ...

In June 2011, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization officially declared that the deadly animal disease rinderpest had been eradicated. The disease devastated livestock and lingered in Africa ...

Rinderpest is a contagious disease also known as cattle plague. Animals with cloven hooves are vulnerable to it. In the 1920s farmers began quarantining and slaughtering animals with it.

Rinderpest was the second disease eradicated from the world, after smallpox. The third, and the one so many hopes are pinned on, should be polio.

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