Maintaining global freedom from rinderpest
The 3rd International Meeting on ‘Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest’ was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 14-16 June 2017. The meeting brought together a global audience, including a group of scientists from The Pirbright Institute, who discussed plans for controlling the risk of rinderpest re-emergence.
Rinderpest disease was eradicated in 2011 and no longer occurs in livestock, however, the risk of the virus being released from laboratories into susceptible animal populations, albeit low, cannot be ruled out.