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cattle plague

noun

Veterinary Pathology.


cattle plague

noun

  1. another name for rinderpest
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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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