Monday, September 17, 2012

Voice of America: Pastoralists Played Major Role in Ending Rinderpest

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Pastoralists Played Major Role in Ending Rinderpest
Sep 17th 2012, 13:41

In June 2011, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization officially declared that the deadly animal disease rinderpest had been eradicated. The disease devastated livestock and lingered in Africa long after being eliminated in developed countries. But while a vaccine put a halt to rinderpest, eradication would not have occurred nearly as quickly without the help of nomadic herders. Rinderpest was the first animal disease to be eliminated globally -- and only the second disease overall to be ...

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