Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acute, often fatal, contagious viral disease, chiefly of cattle, characterized by ulceration of the alimentary tract and resulting in diarrhea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An acute infectious disease of cattle, appearing occasionally among sheep, and communicable to other ruminants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also
cattle plague ,Russian cattle plague , andsteppe murrain .
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- noun a
contagious disease ofruminants andswine caused by anRNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes
Etymologies
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Examples
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But while rinderpest is on the verge is being eradicated, PPR is on the verge of spreading across southern Africa.
Deadly Viral Disease Could Put 50 Million Sheep and Goats at Risk 2010
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Known as rinderpest, the disease came to Kenya and Tanzania when infected cattle were imported from the Horn of Africa around 1890.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Known as rinderpest, the disease came to Kenya and Tanzania when infected cattle were imported from the Horn of Africa around 1890.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Known as rinderpest, the disease came to Kenya and Tanzania when infected cattle were imported from the Horn of Africa around 1890.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Modern science explains the wasting away of savage men; it says that we have diseases which we can bear, though they cannot, and that they die away before them as our fatted and protected cattle died out before the rinderpest, which is innocuous, in comparison, to the hardy cattle of the
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851
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He has also carried out work of exceptional importance, concerning a host of destructive tropical cattle diseases, such as rinderpest, Surra disease, Texas fever, and finally concerning coast fever in cattle and the trypanosome disease carried by the tsetse fly.
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At a ceremony at FAO headquarters in Rome, Diouf also announced the eradication of the contagious viral cattle plague known as rinderpest by mid-2011.
FAO Calls for 70 Percent Increase in World Food Production 2010
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He said the deadly cattle plague, rinderpest will be completely eradicated by mid-2011.
FAO Calls for 70 Percent Increase in World Food Production 2010
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Diouf added that FAO is concluding its field operations to combat rinderpest.
FAO Calls for 70 Percent Increase in World Food Production 2010
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Measles, for example, is a variant of rinderpest, a cow disease.
jochenb commented on the word rinderpest
Science 21 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5870, pp. 1606 - 1609
DOI: 10.1126/science.319.5870.1606
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word rinderpest
Usage on bongo.
September 22, 2008
ramsler commented on the word rinderpest
Walter Plowright, 86, the British veterinarian who discovered a vaccine that has almost totally eliminated the cattle disease rinderpest, died Feb. 19 (2010) in London. {Washington Post, March 23, 2010)
March 28, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rinderpest
Now declared eradicated, according to this article in the NY Times.
November 9, 2010
reesetee commented on the word rinderpest
Really? Now who will pester the rinders?
November 16, 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word rinderpest
Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) is an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and some other species of even-toed ungulates, including buffaloes, large antelope and deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs.
June 22, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word rinderpest
I was going to yoink this for my cattle list, but I see that it's already there. Now I'm wondering whether there are any bison or buffalo lists anywhere--excuse me while I roam off to where the deer and the antelope play.
June 22, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word rinderpest
Fine, fine. I guess I just nominated myself, didn't I?
June 22, 2015