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Rinderpest has been eliminated!

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Rinderpest has been eliminated!
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RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated!
July 1, 2011 at 2:21 am (This post was last modified: July 1, 2011 at 2:23 am by Justtristo.)
(June 30, 2011 at 8:03 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: The genetic roots of the measles virus is of rinderpest, developed between 11th and 12th centuries.
REF: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf...x-7-52.pdf

Makes me wonder how many of our persistent, human diseases are byproducts of man's long and dirty history with animals...

Quite a lot of them, including the AIDS virus which came into the human population out of the result of African hunters eating and possibly having sex with chimpanzees.
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Rinderpest has been eliminated!

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Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Justtristo - June 30, 2011 at 5:31 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Epimethean - June 30, 2011 at 5:18 pm
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Autumnlicious - June 30, 2011 at 8:03 pm
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Justtristo - July 1, 2011 at 2:21 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Shell B - July 1, 2011 at 2:25 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Faith No More - July 1, 2011 at 2:30 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Shell B - July 1, 2011 at 2:31 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Faith No More - July 1, 2011 at 2:34 am
RE: Rinderpest has been eliminated! - by Epimethean - July 1, 2011 at 9:08 am

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