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Rinderpest was mainly transmitted by direct contact and by drinking contaminated water, although it could also be transmitted by air. [4] Rinderpest is believed to have originated in Asia, and to have spread by transport of cattle. [5] [6] [7] The term Rinderpest (German: [ˈʁɪndɐˌpɛst] ⓘ) is a German word meaning 'cattle plague'.
June 28 – The Food and Agriculture Organization announces the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest from ... release the blockbuster video game Minecraft, ...
The eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. [1] Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox in humans, and rinderpest in ruminants.
14 October 2010: Rinderpest eradication efforts announced as stopping by the UN. 16 October 1975: Last known case of naturally occurring Variola major smallpox reported 25 October 2012: Alipogene tiparvovec, a gene therapy for lipoprotein lipase deficiency using an adeno-associated virus-based vector, was the first gene therapy to be licensed
By the end of the century rinderpest had been eradicated from most countries. A few pockets of infection remained in Ethiopia and Sudan, [ 239 ] and in 1994 the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with the aim of global eradication by 2010. [ 240 ]
The start of the article says "The last known case of rinderpest was diagnosed in 2001", which makes "In 2008, scientists involved in rinderpest eradication efforts believed there was a good chance that rinderpest would join smallpox as officially "wiped off the face of the planet"." later in the article a confusing sentence.
However, rinderpest had not crossed the Sahara until the 1880s. The spread was rapid, trickling in from inland regions during the German pacification campaigns of the 1880s and 1890s. Rinderpest was referred to as sadoka in East Africa. Evidence of rinderpest in cattle in Eritrea and Ethiopia can be seen almost a decade before the devastation ...
The measles virus evolved from the now eradicated rinderpest virus which infected cattle. [12] Sequence analysis has suggested that the two viruses most probably diverged in the 11th and 12th centuries, though the periods as early as the 5th century fall within the 95% confidence interval of these calculations. [12]