cattle plague
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cattle plague
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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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
Note L. Scotland.—The cattle plague has travelled North to Aberdeenshire, and has killed a number of animals almost simultaneously on three farms at many miles distance from one another.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
We have the cattle plague in full force here, and it has even touched my small group of tenants.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John
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