{"70617":{"#nid":"70617","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Vaccine Dinner Club","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe invite you to attend the January meeting of the VDC to help celebrate the fact that public health has already successfully kept one of ITS most crucial resolutions for the 21st century ... namely the global eradication of a disease that:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2022 Has a mortality rate approaching 100% during outbreaks\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2022 Causes erosion of the mouth, nose, and genital tract\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2022 Kills within 6-10 days of first showing symptoms\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2022 Has been responsible for causing extinction-level events\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2022 Has been used as an agent of bioterrorism by invading armies\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo, not smallpox \u2014 we got rid of that way back in the 20th century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI\u2019m speaking of Rinderpest \u2014 the ickiest, most devastating disease you probably never heard of. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERinderpest doesn\u2019t kill people, it kills cattle and buffalo.  Millions of them.  Rapidly.  In fact, within days to weeks of its appearance in a region (frequently accompanying invading armies, carried by resistant but virus-shedding trojan horse Gray Steppe oxen), there would be no bovines left to till the fields, move people or goods to market, fulfill bride-price obligations, or feed and clothe the population.  Which in turn led to mass starvation, social chaos, and history\u2019s first ever school of veterinary medicine (1762, Lyons France).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Speaker: Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP\nJosiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor\nDepartment of Veterinary Pathology\nCollege of Veterinary Medicine\nUniversity of Georgia","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Sordid Life and Unlamented Death of Rinderpest"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2011-01-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:05","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-01-12T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-01-12T19:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-01-12T19:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-01-12 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-01-13 00:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-01-13 00:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2305","name":"Emory University"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"14540","name":"VDC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EKimberly Hagen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECenter for AIDS Research, Emory Univ.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kimberly.hagen@emory.edu\u0022\u003EContact Kimberly Hagen\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-727-8855\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}