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Braggi
12-03-2009, 01:49 PM
The comments are precious. The article describes yet another triumph of modern medicine.

Another Global Disease Bites the Dust? Boing Boing (https://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/03/another-global-disea.html)

A deadly animal virus, known for killing 80-90 percent of infected cattle in as little as 7 days, is on the verge of extinction. Rinderpest, a relative of measles, is a threat to humans as well as domesticated livestock. Not because it can jump species, but because of the famines it leaves in its wake. ...