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• n  an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes

• He also copes with a rinderpest epidemic anc the villainy of an ivory poacher (Harold Warrender).
• When Holmes arrived in the district, he found plenty of rinderpest and other cattle diseases.
• During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest, a disease spread by imported cattle.

• cattle plague

News & Articles

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• 8 Confirmed Mumps Cases At Hoboken College Campus
  As if it weren't enough that Manhattan's been plagued by a recent measles resurgence , eight students at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ have reportedly contracted mumps . Up next: smallpox, rinderpest, bubonic plague, dodo bird stampede. [ more › ]
  April 18, 2014 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Yoweri Museveni in Daily Monitor
  You see me here, I am rich and not because that I am working from your government but because I inherited the wealth from my great grandfather who saved seven cows from Rinderpest in 1893,Mr Museveni said.
• Abed Bwanika in Daily Monitor
  We are seeing high incidences of nagana, foot and mouth, east coast fever, rift valley fever, brucellosis and rinderpest,Dr Bwanika said.