This chapter delves into the consequences of mistaking rinderpest for smallpox in the UK, leading to a failed vaccination campaign. It also explores the devastating effects of rinderpest introduced to Africa through colonial practices, resulting in widespread livestock and wildlife deaths, and a severe humanitarian and environmental crisis.
This 2020 episode examines how, though rinderpest was declared eradicated fairly recently, rinderpest's history goes way back. Eradicating the disease took a coordinated, international effort.
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