cattle plague

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. rinderpest.

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cattle plague British  

noun

1. another name for rinderpest

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Etymology

Origin of cattle plague

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Rinderpest virus, also known as cattle plague, is in the same family as measles, but does not infect humans.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

Rinderpest, which means "cattle plague" in German, is highly contagious and has a fatality rate of about 80 percent.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2011

Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract disease, are on the rise.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cattle plague is by far the most formidable malady which can affect animals.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

So we put a good face upon a bad game, observing the desolation of all this country, where the cattle plague had just broken out.

From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Chatrian, Alexandre