The animal story

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's global rinderpest eradication programme (GREP)--the first and only attempt to eradicate an animal pathogen--provides several learning points from the veterinary perspective. Rinderpest was an ancient disease which affected cattle and was believed to ha...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:BMJ 2005-11, Vol.331 (7527), p.1262-1264
Main Author: Roeder, Peter L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa, Western
Animal diseases
Animal Diseases - prevention & control
Animals
Cattle
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Communicable Disease Control - trends
Disease control
Education And Debate
Epidemiology
Foodborne illnesses
Herd immunity
Immunity
Infections
Measles
Pathogens
Rinderpest - prevention & control
Ruminants
Surveillance
Vaccination
Veterinarians
Viruses
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's global rinderpest eradication programme (GREP)--the first and only attempt to eradicate an animal pathogen--provides several learning points from the veterinary perspective. Rinderpest was an ancient disease which affected cattle and was believed to have been the origin of human measles.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1262