How to tackle one of Africa’s nastiest problems
Eradication is possible—with just a bit of help
IN A clearing close to the entrance of Kenya’s Meru National Park, a bronze statue of a buffalo can be seen standing on a plinth. Despite the best efforts of local elephants who occasionally mistake it for a real buffalo and attack it, it is there to commemorate the site of the final outbreak of rinderpest, a cattle disease similar to measles, which was eradicated in 2011.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “An end to goat plague?”
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