Question

briefly describe the effect of rinderpest in africa in the 1890s

Answer 1

in the 1890s, an epizootic of the rinderpestvirus struck Africa, considered to be "the most devastating epidemic to hit southern Africa in the late nineteenth century". It more than 5.2 million cattle south of the Zambezi, as well as domestic oxen, sheep, and goats, and wild populations of buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest. This led to starvation resulting in the death of an estimated third of the human population of Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Tanzania.
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