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- Title
Peste des petits ruminants: a suitable candidate for eradication?
- Authors
Baron, M. D.; Parida, S.; Oura, C. A. L.
- Abstract
This year will see the final announcement, accompanied by much justifiable celebration, of the eradication from the wild of rinderpest, the 'cattle plague' that has been with us for so many centuries. The only known rinderpest virus (RPV) remaining is in a relatively small number of laboratories around the world, and in the stockpiles of vaccine held on a precautionary basis. As we mark this achievement, only the second virus ever eradicated through human intervention, it seems a good time to look at rinderpest's less famous cousin, peste des petits ruminants ('the plague of small ruminants') and assess if it should, and could, also be targeted for global eradication.
- Subjects
RUMINANTS; RINDERPEST virus; MORBILLIVIRUSES; PLAGUE; VACCINES
- Publication
Veterinary Record: Journal of the British Veterinary Association, 2011, Vol 169, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
0042-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1136/vr.d3947