(Click on the maps to enlarge them). | The history of PPR began 75 years ago when it was identified in the Ivory Coast. Up until the 1970s, it was only reported in coastal West African countries: Benin, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, and Ghana. In the beginning of the 1970s, it appeared in Sudan. Between 1980 and the early 1990s, it spilled over from the African continent onto the Arabian Peninsula (Oman 1983, Saudi Arabia 1988, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates 1991) and the Middle East (Lebanon 1986, Jordan 1989, Israel 1993, Iran and Iraq 1994). It reached South Asia in 1987 when it was diagnosed in India. It has become a panzootic.
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