[Rinderpest, Jules Bordet and the serum production center of cureghem]
(2003) Annales de Medecine Veterinaire (Print Edition) — Vol. 147, n° 3, p. 197-205 (2003)
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- Rinderpest had an important part in the history of the veterinary medicine. The methods used to control this disease since the beginning of the 18(th) century, are at the source of the principles of hygienic prophylaxis required today to eradicate the contagious animal diseases. Research on prevention of rinderpest stimulated the development of various methods of medical prophylaxis, which leads to the modern stable vaccines. At the beginning of his career, Jules Bordet, Nobel price of physiology and medicine 1919, took part in the research on the prophylactic methods against rinderpest in Transvaal, South Africa. In 1920, Jules Bordet belonged to the commission set up to fight against an accidental outbreak of rinderpest in Belgium. Under the leadership of the Institut Pasteur de Paris, and with the assistance of the french veterinary authorities, he contributed to set up a Serum production center, in the enclosure of the Ecole veterinaire de Cureghem, to study rinderpest and to produce serum. The Office international des epizooties is born from the collaboration between french and belgian veterinary authorities, during this last outbreak of rinderpest in the West.
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Mammerickx, M. (2003). [Rinderpest, Jules Bordet and the serum production center of cureghem]. Annales de Medecine Veterinaire (Print Edition), 147(3), 197-205. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/136740 (Original work published 2003)