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In January 1938, an international conference was called at Nairobi which agreed to create a 64-km-wide belt of triple-immunized cattle to the south of the infected area in Tanganyika. Rhodesia, South Africa, and Kenya, all agreed to contribute an officer for 6 months. In May, low levels of the Ruaha River allowed it to be crossed again by infection as in 1936. The special campaign began in June 1938, and by December, a 128-km-wide belt of immune cattle had been created.
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This was followed by the West Asian Rinderpest Eradication Campaign (WAREC), which ended in 1994, and the South Asia Rinderpest Eradication Campaign (SAREC).
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Spinage, C.A. (2003). Continuation of Rinderpest in Africa. In: Cattle Plague. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8901-7_26
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