SWINE FEVER


Meaning of SWINE FEVER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1886

1. : hog cholera

2. : an acute highly contagious usually fatal disease of swine that is caused by a double-stranded DNA virus (species African swine fever virus of the genus Asfivirus, family Asfarviridae ), that resembles but is more severe than hog cholera, and that is indigenous to Africa

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