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Q: Cattle disease that caused a disastrous famine in east Africa in late 1880's?
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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


What cattle disease caused a disastrous famine in east Africa in the late 1880s?

The disease was rhinderpest.


What is a disease in cattle associated with prions?

One disease of cattle caused by a prion is BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) aka Mad Cow Disease


What caused the Irish famine?

According to the Irish, it was not just the failure of the potato crop. It was the fact that the British had taken all their other food - cattle, etc. and so the impact of the potatoe famine was disastrous.


Scrapie in sheep Mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome in humans are examples of diseases that are caused by?

Prion


Is malaria a communicable disease?

malaria is a communicable disease caused by mosquito bites. It is most common in Africa, although it is also present in Asia and Latin America.


Is mad cow disease a protist?

Mad cow disease is the name of a syndrome given to an unusual spike in the number of cattle showing neurologic signs in the United Kingdoms in the 1980s. The disease was given the formal name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy based on the microscopic signs of the disease in the brain and is often called BSE for short. BSE is caused by a prion, a mis-folded protein in the brains of cattle, so it is not caused by a protist.


What caused sheep and cattle to die during the Black Death?

Answerthey were exposed to the disease Different answer:There is a theory that the Black Death was caused in part by anthrax. In that case, anthrax would almost certainly have been the cause of death for the sheep and cattle.


Is mad cow disease in the blood of cows?

No. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The protein has been found in the distal small intestine, tonsils and central nervous system tissues of cattle infected with the prion. The prion has never been found in the blood or milk of cattle.


Does AIDS caused by Malnutrition?

AIDS is not caused by malnutrition, it is caused by a virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It sometimes resembles malnutrition because people with AIDS often become very thin, as a side effect of the disease (it is even known in Africa as the thin disease).


What is sappi disease called in English?

Sappi disease is called "Theileriosis" in English. It is a tick-borne disease caused by the protozoan parasites of the genus Theileria, affecting cattle and other ruminants. Symptoms include fever, anemia, and jaundice.


What started Shipping fever?

Shipping Fever in cattle often starts from a lowered immune system which is caused by stress. Stress comes about when cattle are handled roughly, especially on the salebarn or auction mart, or when calves are weaned from their mothers and sent on the truck right away. Shipping fever is a respiratory disease often caused by Pastuerella spp. of bacteria, but can be caused by a virus too.