Rinderpest Synonyms

rĭndər-pĕst
An acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cattle-plague

Words Related to Rinderpest

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. brucellosis
  2. cbpp
  3. trypanosomiasis
  4. schistosomiasis
  5. louping ill
  6. bvdv
  7. babesiosis

Rinderpest Sentence Examples

  • Cattle plague, or rinderpest, has not been recorded in Great Britain since 1877.

  • In 1865 the rinderpest, or steppe murrain, originating amongst the vast herds of the Russian steppes, had spread westward over Europe, until it was brought to London by foreign cattle.

  • One memorable feature was associated with 1877 in that this was the last year in which the dreaded cattle plague (rinderpest) made its appearance in England.

  • Rinderpest in1896-1897swept through South Africa, and probably carried off in Natal from 30 to 40% of the stock of Europeans, while the natives' losses were even heavier.

  • The government maintains experimental farms and forestry plantations and a veterinary department to cope with lung sickness, rinderpest, East Coast fever and such like diseases.

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