The campaign includes a video calling on OIE member countries to respect the commitments they agreed to in a vote at the OIE in 2011 and warns about the accidental or deliberate release from laboratories still holding the virus. Rinderpest, or cattle plague, decimated hundreds of millions of cattle across Asia, Europe and Africa. The aim was to leave only a few samples in high-security laboratories for research or for vaccination in case the disease re-emerged.

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