In time of plague : the Basotho and the rinderpest, 1896-8
Rinderpest, the most dreaded bovine plague, struck the cattle of the BaSotho in British Basutoland early in 1897. By December the murrain had spent itself, having reduced the cattle population by half As it did so, the rinderpest claimed the primary historical significance of an epidemic. By sharpen...
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Rhodes University
2000
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002405 |