TY - BOOK ID - 66823763 TI - Science and empire : East Coast fever in Rhodesia and Transvaal PY - 1991 SN - 0521392535 9780521392532 0521524490 9780521524490 9780511563676 0511563671 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - East Coast fever KW - History KW - Theileriasis KW - African Coast fever KW - Bovine theileriasis KW - Bovine theileriosis KW - Coastal fever KW - East African Coast fever KW - Rhodesian tick fever KW - Cattle KW - Theileriosis KW - history KW - Infections KW - Africa, Southern. KW - Zimbabwe. KW - Republic of Zimbabwe KW - Zimbabwe Rhodesia KW - Rhodesia, Southern KW - Southern Rhodesia KW - Southern Africa KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History. KW - East Coast fever - Zimbabwe - History KW - East Coast fever - South Africa - Transvaal - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66823763 AB - East Coast fever is a lethal disease of cattle, caused by a parasite that multiplies within T-lymphocytes, causing them to become lymphoblasts that behave like cells in leukaemia and lymphoma. This is the story of the disease and its effects on farmers, as well as of the scientists who studied it. The disease was unknown to western science or to veterinary practice until it was introduced into Rhodesia in 1901. It devastated the cattle-raising and ox-cart dependent transport systems of Rhodesia and South Africa and was not fully brought under control for some 50 years. The book describes the social and economic impact of the outbreak, the scientific investigations into it, and the effort to control it. The scientific study of the disease was done in part by the famous bacteriologist Robert Koch, whose many early errors had a negative effect on later investigators whose work was far more sound. ER -