cattle plague

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. rinderpest.

cattle plague

noun

1. another name for rinderpest

Word History and Origins

Origin of cattle plague¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Morbillivirus spilled over into humans from cattle, in whom it causes a devastating disease known as rinderpest, or “cattle plague,” sometime in the 10th century.

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Rinderpest virus, also known as cattle plague, is in the same family as measles, but does not infect humans.

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Rinderpest, or cattle plague, did not affect humans directly but decimated hundreds of millions of cattle across Asia, Europe and Africa.

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The cattle plague is very severe, in addition to other misfortunes.

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But the workman got out of the cattle plague, only to get into worse trouble from the buffalo.

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