Rinderpest: The second disease to be eradicated in the world
Summary
According to WOAH, Rinderpest is believed to have originated in Central Asia and quickly spread across the continent and into Europe, facilitated by trade and migration routes. Consequently, local economies were severely affected, resulting in acute food shortages and famine conditions for the human population heavily reliant on these animals for survival. Similarly, the civil disturbance caused by the Gulf War in the early 1990s significantly increased rinderpest infections in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. During the early 1990s, epidemiological studies conducted in Ethiopia shed light on the persistence of rinderpest in specific parts of eastern Africa’s pastoral ecosystems. Another critical event that marked the final phase of eradication was a severe epidemic from 1993 to 1996, primarily originating from the coastal lowlands of eastern Kenya.
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