Ethiopian Government Celebrates Rinderpest Eradication
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 08:42
in Biology & Nature
A menace to the African cattle population for more than a century, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has declared rinderpest eradicated in Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which grappled with the cattle-killing disease that threatened its food supply and its economy for decades, is celebrating the eradication on Saturday July 25, 2009.