Rinderpest Campaigns Virus Its Vaccines Global Development Twe… 9781108422741 LN

The Rinderpest Campaigns\n\nA Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century\n\nExamines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.\n\nAmanda Kay McVety (Author)\n\n9781108422741 (SKU 3264303), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 23 August 2018\n\n306 pages\n23.5 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.58 kg\n\n'This is a very timely book, told in a masterful way.' Alain Touwaide, Doody's Reviews\n\nAmanda Kay McVety has written the first history of the international effort to eradicate rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - which began in the 1940s and ended in 2011. Rinderpest is the only other disease besides smallpox to have been eradicated, but very few people in the United States know about it, because it did not infect humans and never broke out in North America. In other parts of the world, however, rinderpest was a serious economic and social burden and the struggle against it was a ]