Plague -- United Kingdom
Scientists have destroyed the UK's laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses.
These stocks accounted for most of the world's lab samples of rinderpest, which were held at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey.
Rinderpest and the deadly smallpox virus are the only diseases to have been eradicated from the face of the Earth.
BBC News had exclusive access to the destruction of the final samples.
Dr Carrie Batten, from The Pirbright Institute, described the
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