#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #newwild #pearce #invasive #invasivespecies #invasion #sleepingsickness #rinderpest #africa #cattle #agriculture #uganda #eastafrica #epidemic

#Medsky🧪 #idsky #immunosky #pedsky #publichealth Louis Pasteur said,a tad optimistically that “it is within the power of man to eradicate infection from the earth” That power, harnessed through vaccination, has so far eradicated 2 🦠 s #smallpox & #rinderpest (which is closely related to #measles) .

#Rinderpest is a rather simple mutation of the #Measles virus allowing it to infect cattle where it is 100% lethal.

Not all #Pandemics are as benign as #Covid.

The 12th Regional Steering Committee (RSC-12) of the #GFTADs for Africa (WOAH, @fao.org , AU-IBAR, AU-PANVAC) gets underway this morning in Mbabane, Eswatini, for the next three days, covering #Rinderpest #FMD #ASF #PPR #CBPP #RVF on the agenda, along with #HPAI #AHS #LSD and vet. stakeholders

Vaccines have such a long history of success, to deny them is to deny history -- vaccines eradicated or controlled many diseases and saved lives.

#measles #smallpox #polio #malaria #mumps #rubella #Rinderpest #Guineaworm #LymphaticFilariasis #Cysticercosis #Covid #antivaxxer

Romania faces 60 active ovine rinderpest outbreaks nationwide Romania is grappling with a surge in ovine rinderpest or sheep and goat plague with 60 active outbreaks reported across the country according to th

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Schon 60 Ausbrüche von #Rinderpest in #Rumänien. Läuft soweit.