How was rinderpest eradicated?

The only virus besides smallpox that we’ve succeeded at eradicating was rinderpest, a pathogen that once killed 90% of the cattle on the African continent in a single decade.

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The world’s last-ever brush with rinderpest happened in 2001, in Kenya.

It was an uncharacteristically tepid final outbreak of a disease that, at full gas, was powerful enough to wipe out the wealth of kingdoms in weeks.