Titlebook: Cattle Plague; A History C. A. Spinage Book 2003 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2003 agriculture.animals.ecology.infection.virus

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M. Liehn,L. Steinmüller,I. Welkrtary. Germany alone lost 28 million head between 1711 and 1865, three in every four animals dying. Following its introduction into Britain in 1745, the losses in 1745–57 were estimated at in excess of half a million head. Its introduction in 1865 with a dozen oxen led to the death, including those

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,Organexplantation – Multiorganentnahme,ike the disease of the black cattle here, a few years since, which neither proved infectious to other brutes, nor to men.” (Mead, 1720). Layard (1757) was of the opinion that rinderpest affected only horned cattle, but although a disease of all cloven-hoofed ungulates, not all species may be affecte