rinderpest

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  1. noun An acute, often fatal, contagious viral disease, chiefly of cattle, characterized by ulceration of the alimentary tract and resulting in diarrhea.

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  • Active immunization cattle killed vaccines prepared cell-cultured rinderpest virus —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Adaptation virulent rinderpest virus calf - lamb-kidney cell-culture —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Closer to home, Crawford reveals that measles, increasing due to ill-founded fear of the MMR jab, is closely related to the cattle virus rinderpest. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • A small list of some of the successful IAEA-backed programmes include helping 24 African countries eradicating the deadly cattle disease rinderpest, combating the fruit fly in Latin America, and introducing a variety of wheat in Keya that is yielding 11 percent more, under drought conditions, than the best varieties available until now. —  IAEA Top News RSS Feed
  • Gildenhuys confirmed that rats carried many diseases, including rinderpest. —  News24
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  1. German : Rinder, genitive pl. of Rind, head of cattle, ox (from Middle High German rint, from Old High German hrind; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots) + Pest, plague (from Latin pestis).

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  1. from German rinderpest (= Dutch rinder-pest), cattle-plague, from rinder, plural of rind, horned cattle (= English dial. rother, a horned beast: see rother), + pest, plague (= English pest): see pest.
 

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