Talk:Rinderpest

message: In 1899, cattle were infected with a bacteria-free filtrate. Dr. Walter Plowright was awarded the World Food Prize in 1999, for developing a vaccine against rinderpest. The FAO predicts that with vaccination the cattle plague will be eradicated by 2010[6].
Is 1899 correct? I can't tell, because I don't know what to search for. From the tenor of the paragraph, I suspect it's wrong... --DrGaellon (talk | contribs) 17:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, well, that part of the text wasn't added by myself, but it seems pretty correct, considering that all kinds of experimentation was going on since the 18th century... But yes, that should be fact-checked and preferably expanded. Random Nonsense 01:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Error?

message: Should this article be put into the past tense in the relevant places (such as "Rinderpest is an infectious viral disease" to "Rinderpest was an infectious viral disease"), now that it has been eradicated? 03jkeeley (talk) 20:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, not if we are guided by the precedent of the Smallpox article, which is in the present case. For smallpox, the virus is still alive in government laboratories, and could be used as a biological weapon. Rinderpest as a weapon is far less likely, but I would presume that the virus still exists in laboratories, but not in nature. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:39, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In this article, it mentions it as a laboratory virus so it's not totally gone.Imasleepviking ( talk ) 17:16, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Past-Tense

message: What does RPOK mean? An acronym like that should not be left unexplained in a FA rated article. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure, but note that this article isn't FA rated, it was just in the news section. --86.161.73.164 (talk) 23:50, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake on the rating, but I still wonder what RPOK means. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RPOK 

message: It seems we're missing a huge part of the history here; how and when was it exterminated in Europe? The article spends all this time talking about northern European attacks on the virus, then jumps to PanAfrican and Somalia eradication attempts.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Europe 

message: Apparently it's been wiped out, anyone want to update the article? I'm terrible at Wikipedia editing. Here's the source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/health/28rinderpest.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.102.13 (talk) 08:47, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rinderpest *was* an infectious viral disease... 

message: The fifth plague of Egypt described in the Hebrew bible is not regarded to have been cattle plague. The Bible mentions a wide spectrum of animal species that were severely affected and died due to the "very grievous murrain," namely, "cattle which is in the field, horses, asses, camels, oxen and sheep" (Exodus 9:3). In fact. Rinderpest does not affect horses, asses and camels.
Source: A.Shimshony.  "Rift Valley Fever Caused the Fifth Plague of Egypt and That of 1977." Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),  Sept 19, 1986 - Vol 256, No 11, p 1444.
79.177.173.82 (talk) 06:18, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fifth plague of Egypt described in the Hebrew bible 

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message: Its a serious threat na guys.... Induja99 (talk) 04:01, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bacterial diseases 

message: This article makes lots of mentions of the "1900s".  I would normally parse that as meaning the decade 1900-1909, but from the context it actually means "20th Century".  Would it not be better to write that, to avoid ambiguity? Iapetus (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "1900s" 

message: After reading the article, I'm at a loss as to how the existing and ongoing infection of wild animals was eradicated. I can understand how herds of domestic cattle were vaccinated, but the many types of wild animals in Africa that are/can be infected by Rinderpest wern't vaccinated. So how is the disease thought to be eradicated? It would improve the article to explain this apparent inconsistency.--TGC55 (talk) 17:10, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rinderpest eradicated in wild animal population? 

message: This is what I get as a top Google return for rinderpest. It has 100 citations.
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This seems to be a narrative of early history not otherwise cited here. 
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This 770-page, 2003 book seems to be an attempt at a full history. It is listed on this article in the "further reading" section but not currently cited anywhere. Used copies are selling for US$120, so perhaps the reason why editors have not used this book is that it is difficult to access.
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 Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:07, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources