Tissue-culture rinderpest vaccine
Vacuna de la peste bovina en cultivo celular
- Date
- 1960-1962 · confidence high
- Place
- Muguga, Kiambu, Kenya
- Credited to
- Walter Plowright and R. D. Ferris (East African Veterinary Research Organisation)
- People
- 👤 Walter Plowright1923–2010
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A vaccine of virus attenuated by about 90 passages in bovine kidney cell culture, safe, cheap and giving lasting immunity. It made it possible to eradicate rinderpest, declared extinct in 2011.
Plowright received the World Food Prize in 1999. The 1890 panzootic had killed up to 90% of East Africa's cattle.
What it led to
- the worldwide eradication of rinderpest (2011)
- the second disease eradicated after smallpox
- the end of major African cattle famines