A new analysis published today in Science traces the recent global eradication of the deadliest of cattle diseases, crediting not only the development of a new, heat-resistant vaccine, but also the ...

Permanently wiping out a disease is tricky business. Polio, measles, mumps—all have effective vaccines, yet they persist in certain pockets around the world. To date, the World Health Organization ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OIE, has made significant technical contributions to this ...

Rinderpest, a cattle disease that for centuries felled herds in Europe, Africa and Asia and caused periodic human famine, has been eradicated, veterinary epidemiologists announced this week.

Rinderpest is a morbillivirus that can kill up to 95% of a herd of cattle. It is related to a disease called “canine distemper.” Under a microscope, it looks like a suburb—with some lakes and a park ...

If you don't know what anniversary we are celebrating next year then you have surely been hiding under a rock. However, another anniversary has gone virtually unnoticed. It is 160 years this year ...

Scientists have eradicated a killer virus in the wild, only the second time such a feat has been achieved in human history. Researchers at the UN said today that rinderpest, a virus that causes ...

For centuries, rinderpest, a highly contagious viral disease afflicting cattle, buffalo, yak and several wildlife species, caused immense livestock losses and crushing economic damage. Once common in ...

Livestock plays a pivotal role in socio-economic life of the rural community. It contributed 10.8 per cent to GDP and 46.8 per cent to the agriculture production during the year 2004-2005. The ...

Research is set to resume on the rinderpest virus, the cause of a deadly cattle disease that was declared eradicated in 2011 and has been off limits for study ever since. The moratorium — part of ...