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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-1-27
pubmed:abstractText
Following the success of the JP15 scheme and subsequent annual vaccination campaigns, East Africa was virtually free of rinderpest after the mid 1960s and the disease was considered beaten. However, economic difficulties have recently reduced the expensively maintained vaccine cover and the disease has reappeared throughout much of the region. In 1979 rinderpest was diagnosed in cattle in north eastern Uganda and caused considerable losses until finally brought under control in 1981. No field outbreaks of the disease in cattle have been seen in Kenya but there is serological evidence that the virus has recently infected unvaccinated sheep and goats and wild ungulates in that country. In 1982 rinderpest was confirmed in the laboratory as the cause of death of large numbers of buffaloes in northern Tanzania and implicated as the cause of a rinderpest-like disease of cattle which is reported to be still active in that area. Substantial aid is essential for further control and research if the virus is not again to become endemic in the region.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0042-4900
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
113
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
459-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Re-emergence of rinderpest as a threat in East Africa since 1979.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article