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10,000 BCE
When the Disease was born
It is to be said that it existed as long as 10,000 B.C. -
Apr 2, 1000
Rinderpest's Mutation
Virtually Identical to measles -
Finding a Vaccine
The rinderpest advanced toward the papal herds and two men known as Pope Clement XI and Dr.Giovanni Maria Lancisi were trying to stop it -
Buffalo population
Cattle vaccinated
Buffalo population increase -
Small Pox Eradicated
Small pox is gone but was replaced with more diseases. -
Rinderpest returns
Rinderpest looked like it disappeared in the 70's but returned in the 80's -
Sir Gordon R. Scott
In 1998 a longtime leader of the effort from tropical Veterinary Medicine wrote an article saying he had reluctantly concluded that it would fail