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Cattle disease that caused a disastrous famine in East Africa in the late 1880's?
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Why did the long cattle drive come to and end?
Cattle trails disappeared mostly because of the sudden onslaught of people moving to the West, and a sudden drop in the value of cattle because of all the people coming to herd them, which caused the growth of plotting land and farming in the West.Read more: What_happened_to_the_cattle_trails_due_to_the_railroads
What did people believe caused disease in the middle ages?
People did not differentiate between disease, infection and illness in the middle ages. They did not know about bacteria and virus. All they new abut was poisons, injury, and curses, any of which could be blamed.
How was the Black Death handled?
It wasn't handled very well. They didn't know what the causes for the disease and it was hit and miss solutions. In Venice Italy they put their sick on an island to isolate them and other places they did the samething. Mass graves were dug for the mass amount of dead. Three-fourths of Europe died and they never realized it was the rats and fleas that caused the disease.
How did the pioneers treat dysentery during the westward expansion?
Dysentery is caused by poor sanitation. Being unfamiliar with the cause and modern ways of treatment, this disease was usually confronted by having the patient rest and drink water, due to dehydration as one of the symptoms. Since the probable cause of the illness was in the water supply in the first place, this rarely did much good.
What caused the trolls' downfall?
gravity
What cattle disease caused a disastrous famine in east Africa in the late 1880s?
The disease was rhinderpest.
Cattle disease that caused a disastrous famine in east Africa in late 1880's?
rinderpest
What is a disease in cattle associated with prions?
One disease of cattle caused by a prion is BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) aka Mad Cow Disease
What caused the Irish famine?
According to the Irish, it was not just the failure of the potato crop. It was the fact that the British had taken all their other food - cattle, etc. and so the impact of the potatoe famine was disastrous.
Scrapie in sheep Mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome in humans are examples of diseases that are caused by?
Prion
Is malaria a communicable disease?
malaria is a communicable disease caused by mosquito bites. It is most common in Africa, although it is also present in Asia and Latin America.
Is mad cow disease a protist?
Mad cow disease is the name of a syndrome given to an unusual spike in the number of cattle showing neurologic signs in the United Kingdoms in the 1980s. The disease was given the formal name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy based on the microscopic signs of the disease in the brain and is often called BSE for short. BSE is caused by a prion, a mis-folded protein in the brains of cattle, so it is not caused by a protist.
What caused sheep and cattle to die during the Black Death?
Answerthey were exposed to the disease Different answer:There is a theory that the Black Death was caused in part by anthrax. In that case, anthrax would almost certainly have been the cause of death for the sheep and cattle.
Is mad cow disease in the blood of cows?
No. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The protein has been found in the distal small intestine, tonsils and central nervous system tissues of cattle infected with the prion. The prion has never been found in the blood or milk of cattle.
Does AIDS caused by Malnutrition?
AIDS is not caused by malnutrition, it is caused by a virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It sometimes resembles malnutrition because people with AIDS often become very thin, as a side effect of the disease (it is even known in Africa as the thin disease).
What started Shipping fever?
Shipping Fever in cattle often starts from a lowered immune system which is caused by stress. Stress comes about when cattle are handled roughly, especially on the salebarn or auction mart, or when calves are weaned from their mothers and sent on the truck right away. Shipping fever is a respiratory disease often caused by Pastuerella spp. of bacteria, but can be caused by a virus too.
How is famine caused?
Famine is simply caused by a countries (or whatever scale you are referring to: city, state, etc...) not having enough food to supply its population... that can be cause my a disease infecting (and killing) crops and/or cattle. Poor Weather that kills crops or cattle... or a fricking asteroid the rips threw the atmosphere heating it up and literally setting the world on fire... which again kills crops and cattle...
