rinderpest
Noun
Meaning
A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
cattle plague
pip
mange
plague
bubonic
cattle
rot
scabies
pox
distemper
rabies
anthrax
leukemia
pestis
epizootic
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A rinderpest epidemic and drought during the 1890s greatly reduced the numbers of both Maasai and animal populations.
Veterinary scientists, notably George Fleming and John Gamgee, campaigned for stringent levels of inspection to ensure that epizootics such as rinderpest (a devastating outbreak of the disease covered all of Britain in 1865) would not be able to spread.