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Walter Plowright
Walter Plowright, CMG, FRS, FRCVS, (born 1923) is a veterinary scientist who has devoted his career to the eradication of the cattle plague Rinderpest. His work led to the development of the Plowright tissue culture rinderpest vaccine, which is predicted to destroy the disease by 2010 and become the first animal disease to be eliminated worldwide.
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