Rinderpest Eradication: Appropriate Technology and Social Innovations

Rinderpest is only the second infectious disease to have been globally eradicated. In the final stages of eradication, the virus was entrenched in pastoral areas of the Greater Horn of Africa, a region with weak governance, poor security, and little infrastructure that presented profound challenges...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2012-09, Vol.337 (6100), p.1309-1312
Main Authors: Mariner, Jeffrey C., House, James A., Mebus, Charles A., Sollod, Albert E., Chibeu, Dickens, Jones, Bryony A., Roeder, Peter L., Admassu, Berhanu, van 't Klooster, Gijs G. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa - epidemiology
Animal diseases
Animal health
Animal productions
Animal viral diseases
Animals
Appropriate Technology
Biological and medical sciences
Cattle
Communicable Diseases
Disease control
Disease eradication
Disease Eradication - methods
Disease transmission
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Epidemiological Monitoring
Epidemiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health Programs
Hot Temperature
Human
Immunization
Immunization Programs
Infectious diseases
Livestock
Medical sciences
Pastoralism
Product innovation
Recruitment
REVIEW
Rinderpest - epidemiology
Rinderpest - immunology
Rinderpest - prevention & control
Rinderpest virus - immunology
Rinderpest virus - isolation & purification
Rinderpest virus - pathogenicity
Scientific Research
Smallpox
Surveillance
Terrestrial animal productions
Training
Vaccination
Vaccination - methods
Vaccines
Vertebrates
Veterinary medicine
Viral diseases
Viral Vaccines - administration & dosage
Viral Vaccines - chemistry
Viral Vaccines - immunology
Viruses
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Summary:Rinderpest is only the second infectious disease to have been globally eradicated. In the final stages of eradication, the virus was entrenched in pastoral areas of the Greater Horn of Africa, a region with weak governance, poor security, and little infrastructure that presented profound challenges to conventional control methods. Although the eradication process was a development activity rather than scientific research, its success owed much to several seminal research efforts in vaccine development and epidemiology and showed what scientific decision-making and management could accomplish with limited resources. The keys to success were the development of a thermostable vaccine and the application of participatory epidemiological techniques that allowed veterinary personnel to interact at a grassroots level with cattle herders to more effectively target control measures.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1223805