Killer virus destroyed by UK lab

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Largest world stock of animal-killing virus destroyed by UK lab

Scientists have destroyed the UK's laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses.

"Rinderpest was devastating and by removing the stocks that are held globally you are essentially reducing the risk dramatically," she said.Rinderpest devastated cattle in Africa during the 1890s. Millions of people died from starvation. Millions of people died as a result. In Ethiopia alone, one-third of the human population was wiped out. The toll in lives was on a scale matched only by the Black Death in Europe.declared to have been eradicated in the wild in 2011.

Among them is the Pirbright Institute in Surrey, which has led efforts to record the genetic information contained in each sample and then destroy it.

 

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What if we need to kill the animals?

Who has the remaining samples and has their been a commitment to carry out the same destruction ?

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