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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'.
Rinderpest had been common in Europe before the Scramble for Africa and European colonialism of Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the familiarity of Rinderpest to Europeans, it had ceased to become a problem in many countries, such as Germany, through modern veterinary policing and cross-border regulation of the cattle trade. [6]
One of the worst famines in all of Russian history, with as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of the country's population killed; see Russian famine of 1601–1603. [53] The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. Russia: 2,000,000: 1607–1608: Famine [46] Italy: 1618–1648: Famines in Europe caused by Thirty ...
Walter Plowright CMG FRS [1] FRCVS (20 July 1923 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire – 19 February 2010 in London [2]) was an English veterinary scientist who devoted his career to the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest.
Rinderpest, which is caused by a virus closely related to measles virus, is a disease of cattle known since Roman times. [41] The disease, which originated in Asia, was first brought to Europe by the invading Huns in 370. Later invasions of Mongols, led by Genghis Khan and his army, started pandemics in Europe in 1222, 1233 and 1238.
Jotello Festiri Soga (1865 – 6 December 1906) was South Africa's first black veterinary surgeon [1] who played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest. [2] The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria is named for him.
Military families protesting the Defense Department's anti-DEI push heckled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on his arrival at U.S. European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. On a visit to ...
According to an article in the New Scientist, the depopulated and apparently primevally wild Africa seen in wildlife documentary films was formed in the 19th century by disease, a combination of rinderpest and the tsetse fly. Rinderpest is believed to have originated in Asia, later spreading through the transport of cattle. [65]