1. Some areas of the world escaped rinderpest.

2. Rinderpest took place in Kenya.

3. Later, it promoted actions to contain rinderpest within the infected eco-systems, and to eliminate reservoirs of infection through epidemiologically and intelligence-based control programmes.

4. Cause: foot and mouth disease (aftosa) or rinderpest, or the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) disease areas.

5. Rinderpest: Acute, highly contagious viral disease of ruminants (including wild cloven-hoofed ones), common in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East.

6. Some areas of the world escaped rinderpest. This was probably because of careful efforts to prevent the import of sick animals.

7. Yet for thousands of years rinderpest has affected people by killing cattle and other animals and causing starvation.

8. Experts believe rinderpest first came from Asia. The name means "cattle plague" in German. The disease was common in Europe until the nineteenth century.

9. Now, rinderpest expert John Anderson calls the end of the disease "the biggest achievement in veterinary history".

10. Then, an epidemic of rinderpest, an acute viral disease, wiped out 90 per cent of the oxen in the country.

11. The method has previously been used to fight rinderpest in Africa and Asia and hog cholera in South America.

12. Biotechnology is also producing valuable diagnostic tools and vaccines that help control devastating animal diseases like rinderpest.

13. The Conference proceeded to examine the animal health situation, in particular in regard to rinderpest, foot and mouth disease and dourine.

14. He led the development of a vaccine called TCRV. A single dose of it could protect animals against rinderpest. Food production increased.

15. After recklessly squandering the money left by his predecessors he was in no position to cope with a massive rinderpest epidemic that began devastating his subjects' livestock in 1294.

16. So far, there have only been two infectious diseases that have been completely eradicated from the planet: smallpox, and the animal disease rinderpest, he said.

17. The launching of GREP was founded on the scientific understanding that the eradication of rinderpest was feasible.

18. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has announced it is ending field operations against rinderpest. Jacques Diouf is head of the FAO.

19. In nineteen ninety-nine,[sentencedict .com] Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

20. Vaccination has been widely used as a cost-effective measure to control infectious diseases, as exemplified by the soon-to-be-confirmed eradication of rinderpest.