The immunization of cattle against rinderpest in eighteenth-century Europe

The immunization of cattle against rinderpest in eighteenth-century Europe.

Rinderpest is caused by a morbillivirus closely related to the measles and canine distemper viruses. The pathology and symptomatology of the three diseases are very similar,1 but in terms of mortality, rinderpest is by far the most lethal; in European cattle the death rate often exceeds 80 per cent. The disease was eradicated in Europe over a hundred years ago, but in the eighteenth century an ...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Rinderpest and mainstream infectious disease concepts in the eighteenth century.

Bacteriology became an established academic discipline with the discoveries and the subsequent classification of a number of pathogenic bacteria during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The first attempt to trace the historical background to this new development appeared as early as 1887 as a series of lectures given by Friedrich Loffler and dedicated to his mentor Robert Koch.' LoMffe...

Cattle plague in eighteenth-century England.

T He. social and economic impact of those recurrent human disasters of pre-industrial society ~ plague, famine and war ~ have received considerable attention in recent years. Animal diseases have had much less coverage since they were rarely systematically reported in the past. However, cattle plague, or distemper of the horned cattle as it was commonly known, was the subject of considerable go...