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Hooray!

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization declared Tuesday that the world was rid of rinderpest.

It decimated herds and caused disaster, devastation and death associated with the fall of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the colonization of Africa.

It's been a long time come'n - but after years of global efforts, rinderpest (German for cattle plague) doesn't exist anymore!!

It is the first animal disease to be eradicated and only the second disease ever, after smallpox in 1980.

First it took a couple thousand years to get the first one and only thirty-one years to get our second.

At this rate we'll conquer the 709,899,993 other disease in no time!

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Tags: cattle, couple, death, disease, evolution, plague, second

Earlier this week we reported news of 200 cows dying in Wisconsin, but now in other weird, disturbing dead animal news 10,000 cattle have died nationwide in Vietnam!

Vietnam government is saying the deaths are due to an intense winter and harsh weather conditions.

Our question is, if the weather is so harsh how come only cattle died? Why not other animals?

Lately, we've had a lot more questions than answers about all these animals dying and we hope we'll get some answers soon from our own government!

Thoughts???

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Tags: cattle, cows, disturbing, end of the world, government, vietnam, winter