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Rinderpest is a disease of?
Cattle
Cattle disease that caused a disastrous famine in East Africa in the late 1880's?
rinderpest was cattle disease broke out in africa in 1880
Cattle disease that caused a disastrous famine in east Africa in late 1880's?
rinderpest
What is a disease of cattle or sheep?
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), cows can get TB and sheep can get foot and mouth
What has the author W Croumbie Brown written?
W. Croumbie Brown has written: 'Dissertation on the recent rinderpest epizootic in the Cape Colony, 1896-97' -- subject(s): Infections, Rinderpest, Cattle
What where the causes of the ndebele and shona uprising in 1896-7?
Their grievances against BSAC & SETTLERS :- Land encroachments;Cattle Seizures; Forced Labour; Bullying Police & Forced Land Seizures,Disease caused by settlers such as Rinderpest.
What disease caused veterinary medicine to develop as a science?
The first modern school of veterinary medicine was established in Lyon France to train medical professionals specifically to deal with outbreaks of rinderpest or cattle plague, which until that point caused semi-regular epidemics resulting in famine.
What is veterinary epizootiology?
Epizootiology is the science which researches and tries to explain the characteristics of such diseases and works out effective strategies to control and avoid outbreaks. Examples of diseases that have been profiled like this are H5N1 avian influenz, African and classical swine fever viruses, foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest.
Which was NOT a reason rinderpest limited African resistance to European colonization?
It increased the number of people sold into slavery. EdOptions c;
Diseases has been successfully eradicated worldwide through vaccination efforts?
Two diseases that have been successfully eradicated worldwide through vaccination efforts are smallpox and rinderpest. Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign, while rinderpest, a viral disease that affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, was officially eradicated in 2011.
What is the symptoms for the disease rinderpest?
Clinical signs of the disease may include:temperature rise in the early stagesanimals is off its food, dull and the coat is staringsometimes shivering can be seenbreathing is quick: a watery or mucous discharge flows from the eyes and nostrils; in the latter case there may be a slight amount of blood in the dischargein milking cows the secretion of milk is diminished or arrestedthe membrane of the nostrils reddens, and an eruption, like grains of bran, appears in the nostrils and inside the lips and cheeks - this eruption is often followed by distinct ulcerationthe animal is at first constipated, but in the later stages diarrhoea often sets in - in this case the dung has a foul smell and is often tinged with blood.The animal rapidly loses condition and the disease usually terminates fatally in from 6 to 10 days. Rinderpest does not attack single animals in a herd, but spreads rapidly from one to another.
What are some extinct diseases?
Rinderpest and Smallpox are the only two in history to be considered fully wiped out, although there are some samples of the Smallpox virus being stored in a lab.
