07/03/2017

Thirty-five year old Yare Omar visited the Kurobaresa vaccination center with her family’s three hundred and fifty goats to have her animals vaccinated against Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) or sheep and...

23/12/2016

The 10th Rinderpest Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) meeting organized by Rinderpest-Secretariat was held at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) headquarters in Paris, France, November 8-9, 2016. JAC is composed of seven leading...

13/05/2016

The 9th Rinderpest Joint Advisory Committee meeting organized by FAO-OIE was held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, April 20-21, 2016. Sessions resulted in a joint guide and design for...

13/05/2016

The first high-level technical meeting since the eradication of Rinderpest in 2012 concluded in Rome, marking the first concrete step towards ensuring global preparedness to deal with a livestock emergency...

13/08/2015

Rinderpest, or ‘’cattle plague’’, is an acute, highly contagious disease affecting several species of wild and domestic cloven-hoofed animals, notably cattle and buffalo. It killed millions of cattle over the...