The Pirbright Institute has revealed it destroyed the largest remaining stock of rinderpest virus. The destruction of one of a handful of laboratory samples of the deadly cattle virus was carried ...

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 ...

In 2011, the global public health community declared the eradication of rinderpest, a severe viral disease of cattle. However, today, Bulgaria has announced an outbreak of ovine rinderpest. What's ...

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 ...

Eventually, quarantines would contain the worst rinderpest outbreaks, though as recently as the 1980s Nigeria lost $2 billion to the disease. In 2011, after decades of work, rinderpest was ...

Rinderpest, or cattle plague, was declared eradicated in 2011. But many research institutes still have samples of the rinderpest virus in storage. Disease experts want those samples destroyed.

In 1897, German colonial authorities in Namibia created a buffer zone to protect their livestock from rinderpest. The fence, known locally as the' Red Line,' remains a divisive topic in Namibia.A ...

When outbreaks occurred, as in Europe of the 1700s or Africa in the 1880s, entire herds were wiped out and communities went hungry. Now the disease is gone, eliminated from the face of the earth.

In 1968, a deadly outbreak of rinderpest, a highly contagious viral disease, also known as cattle plague, swept through the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.

These outbreaks were associated with travelers who brought measles back from Israel, where a large outbreak is occurring. Eighty-two people brought measles to the U.S. from other countries in 2018.