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German measles, rubella.
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A potentially fatal infection of horses and other equids caused by a virus in the genus Orbivirus, transmitted mostly by a biting midge, Culicoides imicola, and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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(veterinary medicine) foot-and-mouth disease
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A highly contagious parvoviral disease of mustelids, causing spontaneous abortion and death in minks and ferrets.
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East Coast fever affecting cattle in Uganda
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(veterinary medicine) Foot-and-mouth disease.
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Initialism of bovine ephemeral fever. [A viral disease of cattle, caused by species of genus Ephemerovirus, transmitted by insects.]
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A viral disease of bees, causing the queen larva to turn black and die.
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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An economically important disease in pigs caused by the Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, in genus Arterivirus.
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An infectious neurological syndrome caused by infection with Borna disease virus.
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A viral disease of cattle, caused by species of genus Ephemerovirus, transmitted by insects.
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A fatal lymphoproliferative disease that affects bovines.
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An infection of cattle caused by the bovine papillomavirus.
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(chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of bovine viral diarrhea [Any of various diseases caused by a bovine viral diarrhea virus.]
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Community-associated MRSA
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Middle East respiratory syndrome
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An often fatal disease of carnivores, caused by canine distemper virus. It is an infection of the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, brain, spinal cord; and its symptoms include high fever, watery discharge from eyes and nose, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, paralysis, and hardening of the footpads.
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A viral fever caused by the Chikungunya virus, an alphavirus spread by mosquito bites.
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(veterinary medicine, informal) Coccidiosis.
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(medicine) Systemic bloodstream infection with cytomegalovirus.
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An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.
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(pathology) A disease of cattle, sheep, and goats caused by the parasite Theileria parva, transmitted by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus.
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Any extremely contagious filovirus infection of African origin that causes Ebola fever, spread through contact with bodily fluids or secretions of infected persons and by airborne particles, caused by the viruses in genus Ebolavirus.
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a strain of Ebolavirus which causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates and usually presents at over a 50% mortality rate
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Any virus that can cause encephalitis
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A viral haemorrhagic fever primarily occurring in Scandinavia and NW Russia, caused by a type of hantavirus spread by voles.
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German measles, rubella.
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A disease, often fatal, of wild ruminants, most notably white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), caused by Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus transmitted by certain midges, especially the species Culicoides variipennis.
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(medicine) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
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(now,, possibly offensive) Rubella.
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Acronym of Greek goat encephalomyelitis virus.
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(medicine) An infection in humans caused by a group of enteroviruses, typically characterized by a mild fever followed by a rash of flat discoloured spots and bumps that may blister, most commonly on the hands, feet and mouth.
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Epidemic arthritic erythema, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis.
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An acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by the orofecal route.
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(medicine) mouth blisters; a painful mouth infection caused by coxsackieviruses
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One of the most infectious of herpes-caused diseases, transmissible by skin-to-skin contact.
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swine fever, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV)
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A disease of the respiratory tract of cattle caused by the species Bovine herpesvirus 1.
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A condition induced by venomization by the sting of Carukia barnesi and certain other box jellyfish. It can lead to cardiac arrest.
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An iflavirus that infects bees.
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(medicine) An acute, and often fatal, viral infection endemic to West Africa. Symptoms include fever, sore throat, muscle aches, a skin rash, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, ulcers, heart and kidney failure.
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Alternative letter-case form of Liberty measles [(obsolete, medicine, US) Synonym of German measles]
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(veterinary medicine) A contagious viral neoplastic disease in chickens.
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Kyasanur Forest disease, the result Kyasanur Forest disease virus transmitted to humans by tick bites, found in parts of India.
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A highly contagious disease of poultry, caused by the Newcastle disease virus.
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A vector-borne febrile arboviral infection caused by three serotypes of Phlebovirus.
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(medicine, colloquial) Parainfluenza.
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Initialism of Potomac horse fever. [An infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacterium Neorickettsia risticii.]
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swine fever, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV)
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A viral disease caused by Sindbis virus, encountered mainly in eastern Finland.
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An infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacterium Neorickettsia risticii.
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Such a party for children, to spread a disease whose consequences are less for children than adults, and which confers lifetime immunity.
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(medicine) suffering from pox
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(veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.
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An infectious disease, resembling influenza, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii (previously classified as Rickettsia burnetii).
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(medicine) An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
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Streptobacillosis, or Haverhill fever or epidemic arthritic erythema, a severe disease caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis
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An illness caused by bacteria of the Rickettsia genus.
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(medicine) A mosquito-borne, acute, febrile, viral disease of humans and animals, caused by an RNA virus of the genus Phlebovirus, which occurs in northern and eastern Africa.
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A contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
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Initialism of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. [A disease of the Americas characterized by fever and rashes, caused by bacteria of the species Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted by ticks.]
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A disease of the Americas characterized by fever and rashes, caused by bacteria of the species Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted by ticks.
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(medicine) The common name for roseola infantum.
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(medicine) A childhood disease caused by human herpesvirus, and characterised by a high-grade fever and a rash which appears as the fever is seemingly resolving.
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Epidemic polyarthritis, a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by infection with Ross River virus.
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A wasting graft-versus-host disease of animals.
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(pathology) The form of influenza that caused a pandemic in 1977.
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(medicine) Initialism of Rift Valley fever. [(medicine) A mosquito-borne, acute, febrile, viral disease of humans and animals, caused by an RNA virus of the genus Phlebovirus, which occurs in northern and eastern Africa.]
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A clinical condition prevalent in East Asia caused by SFTS virus (SFTS, Huaiyangshan virus), a phlebovirus in the family Bunyaviridae.
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eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
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(medicine, colloquial) Streptococcus pyogenes.
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A severe and fatal form of encephalomyelitis in pigs, caused by the virus genus Teschovirus.
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A disease of turkeys, caused by aflatoxins in their feed.
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A form of fowlpox affecting turkeys.
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Having or relating to the disease varicella.
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(medicine) variant CJD, a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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(pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.
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A particular flavivirus that causes West Nile fever, dangerous to humans.
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The disease caused by the Zika virus.
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A disease of humans, transmitted by mosquitoes, caused by the Zika virus, with symptoms similar to dengue fever and many other diseases, that also apparently causes microcephaly in the newborns of infected mothers.
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