Question

explain any three impact of rinder pest of on the life of african

Answer 1

Rinderpest is the greatest plague ever to assail livestock and wildlife in history.

The disease, previously occurring frequently in Eurasia, first visited Africa following shipment of cattle from Asia and Europe. This eventually caused an epidemic that established the virus on the continent in the 1880s. This period recorded mortalities approaching 100 per cent in susceptible livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, it decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, kudu and wildebeest populations. The loss of draught animals, dairy and beef herds resulted in famines that caused the deaths of one third of the human population in Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania. West Africa and Egypt reported similar catastrophes. Linked to the need to control rinderpest outbreaks were the establishment of the first veterinary school on the continent in Egypt, the Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), originally as the Inter-African Bureau of Epidemic Diseases in 1951 and many National Veterinary Laboratories across the continent. Epidemics continued to occur in tropical Africa and many parts of Asia despite