Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2022)

Sequestration and Destruction of Rinderpest Virus–Containing Material 10 Years after Eradication

  • Christine M. Budke,
  • Dirk U. Pfeiffer,
  • Bryony A. Jones,
  • Guillaume Fournié,
  • Younjung Kim,
  • Mariana Marrana,
  • Heather L. Simmons

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.220297
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 9
pp. 1895 – 1898

Abstract

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In 2021, the world marked 10 years free from rinderpest. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Organisation for Animal Health have since made great strides in consolidating, sequencing, and destroying stocks of rinderpest virus–containing material, currently kept by only 14 known institutions. This progress must continue.

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