An acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes.
1After the war came famine, disease, cattle plague, and hailstorms.
2Compensation to the cattle -owners during the cattle plague was difficult no doubt to adjust.
3The cattle plague was sweeping like wildfire among the herds of the nomads; famine seemed imminent.
4It is 160 years this year since the start of a devastating epidemic of cattle plague, or rinderpest.
5Two years ago, at the time of the cattle plague, he bought some cattle and had them insured-
6Mad Bear's warriors can easily cope with Laredo's cavalry, but what they can't cope with is a cattle plague.
7Our oxen continued to walk with sturdy steps; we had not yet lost one, although the cattle plague was prevalent at the time.
8The re-introduction of cattle plague into England in 1877 led to the passing of the Act 41 & 42 Vict.
9Every once in a while there was unrest among the Folk, often after a bad harvest, a cattle plague, or a bout of the cholera.
10The Cattle Plague Act is a conspicuous instance of this defect.
11Cattle plague, or rinderpest, has not been recorded in Great Britain since 1877.
12Bad crops, want.... Cattle plague continually, diseases of all sorts.... We are crushed by poverty.
13Cattle plague was also the second disease to be eradicated by vaccination (the first was smallpox).