An acute, contagious, and often fatal virus disease of cattle, sheep, and goats which is characterized by fever and the appearance of ulcers on the mucous membranes of the intestinal tract.
It was the Batswana, whose economy and livelihood was so firmly locked up in their cattle, who first experienced the characteristic viciousness of the cattle plague once it had crossed from Southern Rhodesia.
The PHLS last night moved to assure the public that there was minimal human risk from the cattle plague and said earlier results on six men with similar symptoms had proved negative.
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