Word: rinderpest
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...World. Once again this pathogen (which could have been carried by dogs or vermin) need not have killed every single animal to have set the wheels of extinction in motion. During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest, a disease spread by imported cattle...