In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo man-eaters relentlessly hunted workers of the Kenya-Uganda railway in the dead of night before eventually being taken down.

Durch Krieg und Viehkrankheiten wie die Rinderpest war die Küstenregion Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts wirtschaftlich geschwächt. Für Pflege und Erhalt der Deiche und Entwässerungsanlagen fehlte ...

But that was the first of only two devastating viral diseases ever to have been wiped off the face of the earth. The other was Rinderpest. Rinderpest, or Cattle Plague, first appeared in South Africa ...