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What does rinderpest mean?

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Noun
  1. A contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
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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.

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