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Walter Plowright: Developed vaccine against rinderpest

Posted on 2 Mar 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) Leave a comment

The London Times recent obituary of Walter Plowright hails Plowright for transforming cattle-based economies that had been blighted by the rinderpest virus.

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