sugar cane
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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sugar cane The tropical grass,
Saccharum officinarum; the juice of the stems contains about 15%
sucrose and provides much of the world's sugar production.
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INDIA DECLARED FREE FROM RINDERPEST INFECTION
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/9/2006; 700+ words
; ...been declared as free from the dreaded rinderpest infection (an acute viral disease affecting...consideration of the OIE for "Freedom From Rinderpest Infection" status as on November 1...2005. The revised National Project on Rinderpest Eradication (NPRE) was launched with...
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Progress against rinderpest - livestock disease - threatened as re-emergence of virus noted in Kenya, Somalia; FAO says pastoral ecosystem at risk, continued eradication efforts needed.
M2 Presswire; 11/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...November 2002-UN: Progress against rinderpest - livestock disease - threatened as...Rome -- Recent progress in eradicating rinderpest -- one of the world's most devastating...diseases -- risks being reversed as the rinderpest virus threatens to break out of its...
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Dr. Walter Plowright Awarded World Food Prize for Developing Rinderpest Vaccine
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 10/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...diseases, Plowright's discovery of the rinderpest vaccine is considered one of the most...availability of food throughout the world. Rinderpest, commonly known as cattle plague...development to introduce a safe and effective rinderpest vaccine. The World Food Prize is the...
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Global Rinderpest Now Reduced to One Area, But Risks Breaking Out, FAO Warns; Somali Pastoral Ecosystem Is Focus for International Push to Eradicate Devastating Livestock Disease.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 11/20/2002; 700+ words
; ...Recent progress in eradicating rinderpest - one of the world's most devastating...diseases - risks being reversed as the rinderpest virus threatens to break out of its...today. While human beings cannot catch rinderpest, by killing entire herds that belong...
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India declared free of rinderpest cattle infection
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/9/2006; 518 words
; ...declared India as free from the dreaded rinderpest infection - an acute viral disease affecting...This recognition of India as free from rinderpest infection is a great achievement. It...export of livestock or its products." Rinderpest, the premier scourge of bovines, has...
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Save the cows. (new vaccines for African cattle disease Rinderpest) (includes related article on sequencing the smallpox virus)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/14/1993; 700+ words
; RINDERPEST is not a disease that much affects the...their flanks. Then they will die. Rinderpest was introduced into Africa in the late...East and India. For the past 30 years rinderpest has been kept at bay with a vaccine...
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Rinderpest Epidemic Spreading in East Africa
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 3/5/1997; 443 words
; An epidemic of rinderpest is currently sweeping across the Kenyan...southern Kenya. The report warned that rinderpest would sweep through Tanzania and on...of a disease with clinical signs of rinderpest was detected in the Nairobi National...
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African Countries Urged to Eradicate Rinderpest
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 3/24/1997; 403 words
; ...called for continental cooperation in rinderpest control in order to increase livestock...speaking at the opening of Pan African Rinderpest Campaign meeting held at Machakos...The minister noted that the disease of rinderpest had already been eradicated in West...
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Ethiopia Free from Rinderpest: Ministry
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/22/1999; 416 words
; ...Africa state is temporarily free from rinderpest, a major cattle-killer contagious...year inoculation campaign against rinderpest in 34 African countries including Ethiopia...disease. "Ethiopia proclaimed itself a rinderpest free zone on May 1 in line with the...
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Rinderpest in Africa Nearly Eliminated
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 10/17/1996; 342 words
; Rinderpest has not been reported in southern Africa...The paper said that isolated cases of rinderpest in Kenya affect only some wild animals...the most devastating disease of rinderpest could be gone once and for all from...
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rinderpest
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
rinderpest or cattle plague, an acute and highly infectious viral disease of cattle, primarily in N Africa, SE Asia, and India. It less...
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rinderpest, before the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
rinderpest, before the in South Africa, a long time ago; referring to the 1896 epidemic of the cattle disease, treated as a landmark.
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Eland
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...animal that selects the most nutritious leaves for its diet. Rinderpest — A contagious, often fatal, viral disease of...ticks. These antelope also died in large numbers during the rinderpest epidemic of 1896. Conservationists support planned domestication...
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Koch, Robert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...Berlin. He studied bacterial diseases not only in humans but also in animals, and identified, among others, the cause of rinderpest, the lethal and economically important cattle plague of Africa. His work was facilitated by many of the techniques he and...
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Me'en
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...which started in the early nineteenth century, may have been fueled by the substantial loss of cattle caused by the Ethiopian rinderpest infestation of the 1880s and 1890s. In the process, the Me'en conquered territory from the Ornotic-speaking Bench...
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