rinderpest

Examples

• All

• The eradication of rinderpest is one of the most remarkable, yet least heralded, global health accomplishments.

  Academic text (2013)

• The final section details the lessons the international community should learn from rinderpest's eradication for future global health programs.

  Academic text (2013)

• No Middle Eastern state reported a single case of rinderpest after 1997.

  Academic text (2013)

• Thus, the loss of cattle due to rinderpest made it easier for sleeping sickness to spread.

  Academic text (2013)

• Efforts to stop the spread of rinderpest began in the early eighteenth century.

  Academic text (2013)

• Pastoralists were certainly concerned about rinderpest, but it was not necessarily their top concern.

  Academic text (2013)

• Focusing efforts solely on rinderpest would not have attracted support from the communities that needed vaccination.

  Academic text (2013)

• More recently, though, Japanese geneticists found that rinderpest did not become a distinct disease until around the year 1000.

  Academic text (2013)

• The failure diminished pressure on the government to eliminate rinderpest, and political support declined.

  Academic text (2013)

• If a family loses its cattle to a rinderpest outbreak, it may lose its livelihood and sink into poverty.

  Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

C

cattle plague

vsrinderpest

• Archaic

8.8

A very contagious disease of cattle that usually kills them with fever and severe diarrhea

has identical meaning but is the original technical name

Surface Forms

Etymology