cattle plague

Origin of cattle plague

First recorded in 1865–70

Doubt equally those who pretend to see in cholera, cattle-plague, and bad harvests, evidences of Divine anger.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 |John Tyndall
The time was autumn, and it chanced that a cattle-plague was raging in the neighbourhood, which inflicted much loss on the people.

Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. |Sir James George Frazer
The outbreak of cattle-plague in Germany restricted the importation of live beasts to those purchased in Holland and Belgium.

The Franco-German War of 1870-71 |Count Helmuth, von Moltke
In the evening we received a visit from eight Tibetans, two of whom had lost all their yaks by a kind of cattle-plague.

Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 1 (of 2) |Sven Hedin

A horse was never inflicted with smallpox, nor a man with the cattle-plague, nor do sheep suffer from the potato-rot.

A Winter Amid the Ice |Jules Verne

cattle plague

another name for rinderpest