What was Rinderpest?

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A disease of cattle plagues that spread in Africa in the 1890s.

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Rinderpest is a cattle plague disease that spread in Africa in the 1890s.
Rinderpest is an acute viral disease of cattle and buffaloes. It is one of the most important diseases that kills farm animals. It is also called rinderpest. All domestic and most wild ruminants are susceptible to the disease. This disease was widespread in Africa in the 1890s. It was considered the most devastating epidemic to hit southern Africa in the late nineteenth century. It killed more than 5.2 million livestock, as well as domestic oxen, sheep and goats and wild populations of buffalo, giraffe and wildebeest.

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