| 释义 |
african swine fever
noun
Usage: usually capitalized A
: an acute highly contagious usually fatal virus disease of swine that is caused by a spherical virus containing one linear double-stranded molecule of DNA, that resembles but is more severe than hog cholera, that is indigenous to Africa where wild swine (as the warthog and bushpig) act as natural reservoirs of the disease, and that has spread to and caused epidemics in the western hemisphere |