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rinderpest| Acute viral disease of cattle (sometimes also of sheep and goats) characterized by fever and bloody diarrhoea, due to inflammation of the intestines. It can be fatal. Almost eliminated in the 1960s, it revived in Africa in the 1980s. |
| Rinderpest belongs to the Paramyxoviridae virus family and has a mortality rate of 95%. Its highest incidence is in the Horn of Africa where it kills 50–80% of cattle. |
| A vaccine using a genetically engineered virus is undergoing trials from 1994. |
| A conference between afflicted African countries and aid donors January 1997 concluded that rinderpest may be completely eliminated by 2000, owing to the success of a mass vaccination and monitoring programme. |
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