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Rinderpest
Rinderpest meaning
An eradicated contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
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Foot and mouth disease, exotic ticks, rinderpest, Rift Valley fever, new world screwworm and other animal diseases also are of concern.
It is part of a family of morbilliviruses that causes canine distemper in many carnivore species, measles in humans, and rinderpest in cattle.
A rinderpest epidemic and drought during the 1890s greatly reduced the numbers of both Maasai and animal populations.
The long-known vaccine against Smallpox finally eradicated the disease in the 1970s, and Rinderpest was wiped out in 2011.
Veterinary scientists, notably George Fleming and John Gamgee, campaigned for stringent levels of inspection to ensure that epizootics such as rinderpest (a devastating outbreak of the disease covered all of Britain in 1865) would not be able to spread.