Camels obviously evolved in an extremely harsh environment and are immune to diseases such as rinderpest and foot-and-mouth that afflict other mammals. |
The rinderpest had taken firm root in the land, and was in a fair way of clearing it of horned cattle from end to end. |
Here droughts, floods and locusts destroy crops and rinderpest kills cattle. |
Cures for infectious sheep disease or for rinderpest amongst the cattle are opposed as contravening the intentions of Providence. |
After the 1903 drought, cattle diseases such as pleuropneumonia and rinderpest followed behind a disguised increase in tax rates for rural Africans. |
For example, in southern Sudan, child immunization programmes have been successfully combined with cattle vaccination against rinderpest. |