Question

write a short note on Rinderpest

Answer 1

Rinderpest, also called steppe murrain, cattle plague, or contagious bovine typhus, an acute, highly contagious viral disease of ruminant animals, primarily cattle, that was once common in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. Rinderpest was a devastating affliction of livestock and wildlife, and for centuries it was a major threat to food production for societies that depended heavily on livestock. However, the launch in 1994 of the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme (GREP) by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations led to the implementation of effective rinderpest-control programs in affected areas of the world. The targeted date for eradication was 2011. In 2010 a preliminary report by GREP suggested that the disease had been successfully eradicated. Follow-up surveillance over the course of the next year confirmed the report’s findings. In 2011 officials with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared eradication of the disease complete, making rinderpest the second viral disease eradicated from the world (smallpox was the first to be eradicated). The last reported rinderpest outbreak occurred in Kenya in 2001.

Answer 2

Rinderpest is  fast spreading cattle plague in south africa. it is used to colonize the country.it devastated the whole community.it was brought to africa through the meat to feed the italian soldiers.it spresd very fast ,within 5 years almost 95% cattle was killed.
now the colonisers successfully monopolised the people and brought tem ito the labour market