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cattle plague
cattle plague
noun
- another name for rinderpest
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cattle plague1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Morbillivirus spilled over into humans from cattle, in whom it causes a devastating disease known as rinderpest, or “cattle plague,†sometime in the 10th century.
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Rinderpest virus, also known as cattle plague, is in the same family as measles, but does not infect humans.
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Rinderpest, or cattle plague, did not affect humans directly but decimated hundreds of millions of cattle across Asia, Europe and Africa.
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The cattle plague is very severe, in addition to other misfortunes.
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But the workman got out of the cattle plague, only to get into worse trouble from the buffalo.
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