8 Horrible Infectious Diseases Humanity Has Triumphed Over

Rinderpest

Rinderpest, also known as cattle plague, was an infectious disease that severely affected cattle, buffaloes, antelopes, deer, giraffes and so on. As you can see, it wasn’t a disease that affected human beings, but if you look deeper into the situation, you will understand that it caused indirect deaths in humans, namely that the mortality rate increased due to starvation.

Studies have shown that in 1890, this disease killed about 90% of all cattle in Africa. The population was reduced by at least one-third due to starvation.

Luckily for people who needed to feed on these animals, Walter Plowright, a British scientist, developed an efficient vaccine to kill this virus, and in 1990, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization bought thousands of vaccines.