“…Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and devastating viral disease affecting mainly sheep and goats but which can infect a wide range of other domestic and non‐domestic species such as goitered gazelles in Turkey (Gür and Albayrak, ), buffaloes in India (Govindarajan et al., ; Balamurugan et al., ) and camels in Sudan and Ethiopia where specific clinical signs such as respiratory syndromes have been described (Abraham et al., ; Banyard et al., ; Khalafalla et al., ; Kwiatek et al., ). Firstly identified in Ivory Coast in 1940, the disease is now widely distributed across much of sub‐Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia including major parts of the Indian subcontinent progressing southward and northward to Africa affecting Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Tanzania (Gargadennec and Lalanne, ; Swai et al., ).…”