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AFGHANISTAN 1952. Anti-rinderpest vaccination campaign

1952 (exact date unknown), Yaka-Olang (Hazarajat), Afghanistan. Ali Mohammad, an army officer loaned by the Government to the FAO team to help carry out inoculations for rinderpest, has a lively time inoculating cattle.

01/01/1952

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Rinderpest is still a most serious killer disease of cattle in Africa and Asia and its control is one of the first objectives of the veterinarians of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). An important early project was carried out in Afghanistan by FAO expert Dr. Eric Pierson (U.K.). At first the farmers were reluctant to cooperate, but as soon as demonstrable results were achieved by the use of an effective vaccine, they began eagerly to bring their livestock to be vaccinated.