Washington, DC 20003, USA Manyara Ranch has on June 8, 2021 received 30,000 vaccine doses to protect its livestock from Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), also known as sheep and goat plague. The vaccines were handed over to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) at the ranch offices by the Department of Livestock officials from the Monduli District Council for use on the ranch and for distribution to nearby communities. The AWF-supported Manyara Ranch has been identified by the Tanzanian office of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) as one of its implementers in FAO’s Livestock Vaccination Campaign. PPR is a highly contagious animal disease affecting domestic and wild small ruminants. It is caused by a virus belonging to the genus Morbillivirus, family Paramixoviridae. Once introduced, the virus can infect up to 90 percent of an animal herd, and the disease kills anywhere up to 70 percent of infected animals. The PPR virus does not infect humans.