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rinderpest

/ˈrɪndəpest/noun

उच्चारण रिन्डपेस्ट

पशु-महामारी, रिंडरपेस्ट

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    [U]

    an infectious disease of cattle and some other animals that killed very large numbers of them until it was wiped out

    पशु-महामारी, रिंडरपेस्ट

    • Rinderpest once killed millions of cattle in Asia and Africa.
    • India was declared free of rinderpest in 2006.
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Rinderpest was declared eradicated worldwide in 2011, the second disease after smallpox to be wiped out.

GK: 2011 में rinderpest को पूरी दुनिया से समाप्त घोषित किया गया; smallpox के बाद मिटाई गई यह दूसरी बीमारी है।