{"id":340755,"date":"2025-06-18T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=340755"},"modified":"2025-06-19T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:11:12","slug":"rinderpest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rinderpest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinderpest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: India has joined an exclusive global network for containing the Rinderpest virus, with the <em>ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal<\/em>, designated as a Category A Rinderpest Holding Facility. <strong>Rinderpest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-340903 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?resize=442%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rinderpest\" width=\"442\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Rinderpest Holding Facility<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This facility has been recognized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-organisation-for-animal-health-woah-india-will-host-33rd-conference-of-woah-regional-commission-for-asia-and-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)<\/em> <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/food-and-agriculture-organization-fao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<\/em><\/a> of the United Nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance for India<\/strong>: This recognition places India <em>among only six facilities worldwide<\/em> entrusted with the critical responsibility of securely storing rinderpest virus material. The other five are located in the United Kingdom, United States, France, Japan, and Ethiopia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Rinderpest (also known as Cattle Plague):<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rinderpest is a <em>highly contagious viral disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals<\/em>, primarily cattle and buffalo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause<\/strong>: It is caused by a virus belonging to the <em>Paramyxoviridae family<\/em>, genus Morbillivirus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission<\/strong>: The disease spreads through close contact but does not infect humans. It can be fatal for affected animals. Those that recover develop lifelong immunity.<\/li>\n<li>Rinderpest is notable for being the <em>second infectious disease to be eradicated globally, after smallpox.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India has joined an exclusive global network for containing the Rinderpest virus, with the ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, designated as a Category A Rinderpest Holding Facility. Rinderpest About Rinderpest Holding Facility This facility has been recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and the Food and Agriculture&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rinderpest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rinderpest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":340903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-340755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rinderpest.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}