| 单词 | african swine fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAfrican swine fever African swine fever n. a viral disease of pigs occurring in acute and chronic forms that has symptoms similar to those of hog cholera and is transmitted by ticks and by contact with infected animals and secretions.African swine fever often has a very high mortality rate. It was first reported in Kenya and is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, but outbreaks have occurred elsewhere in Africa, in Europe, and in Central and South America.The virus causing it is a double-stranded DNA virus which is the type member of the family Asfarviridae. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of pigs > [noun] swine-sought?c1475 water-gall1582 measles1587 swinepox1587 gargarism1607 measlesa1637 rangen1688 milt-pain1704 choler1729 hog pox1730 gall1736 thirst1736 cholera1837 black tooth1851 hog plague1858 swine plague1863 purple1867 swine fever1877 soldier disease1878 soldier1882 swine erysipelas1887 Aujeszky's disease1906 swine flu1919 swine influenza1920 African swine fever1935 baby pig disease1941 swine vesicular disease1972 SVD1973 1919 Trop. Vet. Bull. 7 45 An outbreak of suspected East African swine fever was reported near Nairobi.] 1935 G. de Kock & E. M. Robinson in Farming S. Afr. Feb. 53/1 That this disease..is African Swine Fever, as it occurs in East Africa and the northern Transvaal, there seems to be little doubt. 1957 H. A. Smith & T. C. Jones Vet. Pathol. ix. 297 Changes grossly evident in African swine fever are similar in many respects to those of hog cholera, but are generally more severe. 2010 Grocer Feb. 5/5 The industry is facing another threat in the form of African Swine Fever. African swine fever swine fever n. any of several infectious diseases of pigs; spec. (a) (more fully classical swine fever) a disease of varying severity caused by a flavivirus (genus Pestivirus), transmitted by contact or infected food, producing symptoms such as high fever, anorexia, respiratory difficulty, diarrhoea, and purplish discoloration of the skin (also called hog cholera); (b) (more fully African swine fever, East African swine fever) a disease with similar symptoms originally identified in wild and domesticated African swine, caused by a DNA virus of the genus Asfivirus, and often transmitted by ticks. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of pigs > [noun] swine-sought?c1475 water-gall1582 measles1587 swinepox1587 gargarism1607 measlesa1637 rangen1688 milt-pain1704 choler1729 hog pox1730 gall1736 thirst1736 cholera1837 black tooth1851 hog plague1858 swine plague1863 purple1867 swine fever1877 soldier disease1878 soldier1882 swine erysipelas1887 Aujeszky's disease1906 swine flu1919 swine influenza1920 African swine fever1935 baby pig disease1941 swine vesicular disease1972 SVD1973 1877 Rushville (Indiana) Weekly Republican 29 Mar. The swine fever has about subsided in this locality, and few hogs are ailing or dying. 1896 E. M. Crookshank Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 4) xxvi. 355 Swine measles, or swine erysipelas,..is very prevalent in France and Germany, but is included in this country in the term ‘swine fever’. 1994 Meat Trade Jrnl. 5 May 1/3 There are fears that the outbreak of classical swine fever on the Continent, said to be spiralling out of control, could result in inflated prices for pigmeat. 2013 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 8/2 Diseases such as blue-tongue in sheep and African swine fever threaten to devastate livestock farming, researchers at the programme warned. < as lemmas |
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