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Eradication was confirmed by the World Organization for Animal Health on 25 May 2011. [53] On 28 June 2011, FAO and its members countries officially recognized global freedom from the deadly cattle virus. On this day, the FAO Conference, the highest body of the UN agency, adopted a resolution declaring the eradication of rinderpest.
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.
The rinderpest epidemic seriously disrupted the socio-economic norms of the Nguni societies, who had evolved around cattle as a source of wealth. It not only eradicated many chief's sources of storable wealth, it threw their entire social system into disarray.
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.
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]
Tsetse fly eradication programmes are complex and logistically demanding activities and usually involve the integration of different control tactics, such as trypanocidal drugs, impregnated treated targets (ITT), insecticide-treated cattle (ITC), aerial spraying (Sequential Aerosol Technique - SAT) and in some situations the release of sterile ...
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
Rinderpest epidemic and the beginning of the rinderpest eradication. Births. 19 January – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist (d. 1838)