DUCK SICKNESS


Meaning of DUCK SICKNESS in English

noun

: a highly destructive form of botulism affecting especially wild ducks in areas of the western United States in which drought has caused decay of aquatic vegetation thereby permitting excessive multiplication of botulinus bacteria ( Clostridium botulinum type C) and spreading of their characteristic toxin in feeding areas — compare limberneck

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