Rinderpest
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; - called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
fever of a malignant and contagious type; the occurrence of it in Britain is due to the importation of infected cattle from the Asiatic steppes.