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In 1887 Italian soldiers brought Rinderpest infected cattle from India to Africa.

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In 1945 a vaccination campaign was founded by the Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations).

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A new Rinderpest vaccine was developed in 1960 more effective than the other vaccines, but it had to be refrigerated at low temperatures

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In the early 1960s, Western veterinarians began efforts to vaccinate cattle across the Serengeti and other African regions

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By 1979, the effort to eliminate Rinderpest from Africa was deemed successful, and the vaccination effort ceased

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Small pockets of Rinderpest infections returned in the 1980s and 1990s, they were quickly combated with additional vaccines

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The last known case of Rinderpest in Tanzania occurred in 1997.