Genus Theilera
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For Sir Arnold Theiler (1867–1936), Swiss-born English veterinarian and botanist who worked in South Africa, is considered the ‘father of veterinary science in South Africa’. He developed vaccines against smallpox and rinderpest. ‘Theiler was the first director of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute outside Pretoria. This institute under his leadership carried out research on African horse sickness, sleeping sickness, malaria, East Coast fever (Theileria parva) and tick-borne diseases such as redwater, heartwater and biliary. A faculty of veterinary science was established here in 1920, which enabled vets to train locally for the first time. Theiler became the first dean of this faculty’ (Wikipedia.org).