Marek's disease
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Marek's disease
After Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907
Example Sentences
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He added that COVID-19 vaccines have been found to reduce transmissions substantially, whereas chickens inoculated with the Marek’s disease vaccine were still able to transmit the disease.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
He added that Covid-19 vaccines have been found to reduce transmissions substantially, whereas chickens inoculated with the Marek’s disease vaccine were still able to transmit the disease.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
At every point in the 50-year history of vaccination against Marek's disease, an individual chicken exposed to the virus was healthier if it was vaccinated.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2021
In the 1970s, his lab developed a vaccine to prevent Marek’s disease in chickens, a cancer that he’d seen as a boy on the farm, and that benefitted the poultry industry.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
At Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, Microbiologist Catherine Fabricant and colleagues are working with a herpes virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
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