Book contents
- The Rinderpest Campaigns
- Global and International History
- The Rinderpest Campaigns
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Grosse Île, September 1942
- 1 Rinderpest and the Origins of International Cooperation for Disease Control
- 2 GIR-1: Rinderpest in World War II
- 3 “Freedom from Want”: UNRRA’s Rinderpest Campaigns
- 4 The Machinery of Development: FAO’s Rinderpest Campaigns
- 5 Back to Grosse Île: Biological Warfare in the Postwar World
- 6 “Freedom from Rinderpest”
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Rinderpest and the Origins of International Cooperation for Disease Control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2018
Book contents
- The Rinderpest Campaigns
- Global and International History
- The Rinderpest Campaigns
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Grosse Île, September 1942
- 1 Rinderpest and the Origins of International Cooperation for Disease Control
- 2 GIR-1: Rinderpest in World War II
- 3 “Freedom from Want”: UNRRA’s Rinderpest Campaigns
- 4 The Machinery of Development: FAO’s Rinderpest Campaigns
- 5 Back to Grosse Île: Biological Warfare in the Postwar World
- 6 “Freedom from Rinderpest”
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces the reader to a brief history of rinderpest and its role in the history of international cooperation. It focuses on the late 19th and early 20th centuries and reveals how rinderpest played an important role in encouraging international cooperation for disease control with special attention paid to the establishment of the OIE in the 1920s.
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- The Rinderpest CampaignsA Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century, pp. 13 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018