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Cell-culture rinderpest vaccine

Recorded year1962

Walter Plowright grows rinderpest virus in cell culture to make a cheap, safe vaccine against the cattle plague that killed millions.

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Polio vaccineRecorded · 1955enables

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Canine parvovirus vaccineRecorded · 1979enables
Rinderpest eradicatedRecorded · 2011enables
African swine fever vaccineForecast · ~2030enables
Goat and sheep plague eradicatedForecast · ~2035enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.