cattle plague

(Veterinary Science) another name for rinderpest

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cattle plague - an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes

rinderpest

animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings

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epizoozia

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Thanks to the extension, Mongolia will be able to produce vaccines for cattle plague, small pox and other animal virus infections.

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Indeed, World Food Prize Laureates have been at the forefront of almost every significant agricultural breakthrough during this period: from the development of the milk industry in India to the miracle rice perfected at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines; from the reform of China's agricultural policies to eliminating the cattle plague rinderpest; from the United Nations delivering emergency food shipments around the globe to eradicating the deadly screwworm infestation in the United States; and from expanding modern irrigation in Israel, Jordan, and the Middle East to discovering and unlocking the incredible potential of agricultural biotechnology.

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Identifying and reducing remaining stocks of rinderpest virus

Then cattle plague hit the country and new laws in 1866 brought in local authority veterinary inspectors, with Clement Stephenson one of these pioneers.

Key veterinary figure honoured

WHEN SOMEONE predicts that "our soils will become barren" and "the dairy industry will be destroyed," you might think a wrathful god is unleashing a cattle plague. But in 1886, the year those threats were registered in the Congressional Record, the source of deadly danger was no deity.

The butter battle

Endemic viruses were a constant threat in the annual global production of 55 billion chickens, and the success in eradicating the cattle plague rinderpest - only the second disease to be eradicated worldwide after smallpox - masked the rapid spread of viruses like pest des petits ruminants, which is fatal to sheep and goats.

Science chief urges caution over animal imports