Rinderpest hopefully joins smallpox in a history without a future Rinderpest, caused by a Morbillivirus, used to be a scourge of cattle. The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced on 14 October 2010 that its 16-year vaccination-based eradication program has been successful. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) still has to certify [...]
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