How was rinderpest eradicated?
The only virus besides smallpox that we’ve succeeded at eradicating was rinderpest, a pathogen that once killed 90% of the cattle on the African continent in a single decade.
Maya Prabhu
Maya Prabhu
Maya Prabhu is Deputy Editor of VaccinesWork. A writer from India and Germany currently based in Italy, she is particularly interested in the intersection of infectious disease and human culture.
