Peste des petits ruminants: a suitable candidate for eradication?

This year will see the final announcement, accompanied by much justifiable celebration, of the eradication from the wild of rinderpest, the ‘cattle plague’ that has been with us for so many centuries. The only known rinderpest virus (RPV) remaining is in a relatively small number of laboratories aro...

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Published in:Veterinary record 2011-07, Vol.169 (1), p.16-21
Main Authors: Baron, M. D., Parida, S., Oura, C. A. L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Animals, Wild - virology
Cattle
Disease
Epidemics
Goats
Measles
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - prevention & control
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - transmission
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - veterinary
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - virology
Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus - immunology
Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus - pathogenicity
Phylogenetics
Sheep
Species Specificity
Vaccination - veterinary
Viruses
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Summary:This year will see the final announcement, accompanied by much justifiable celebration, of the eradication from the wild of rinderpest, the ‘cattle plague’ that has been with us for so many centuries. The only known rinderpest virus (RPV) remaining is in a relatively small number of laboratories around the world, and in the stockpiles of vaccine held on a precautionary basis. As we mark this achievement, only the second virus ever eradicated through human intervention, it seems a good time to look at rinderpest's less famous cousin, peste des petits ruminants (‘the plague of small ruminants’) and assess if it should, and could, also be targeted for global eradication.
ISSN:0042-4900
2042-7670
DOI:10.1136/vr.d3947