Marek's disease
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Marek's disease
After Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907
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The theory appears to have its roots in a 2015 paper about vaccines for a chicken ailment called Marek’s disease.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
As evolutionary ecologist David Kennedy and I have written about previously, the evolutionary path that the Marek's disease virus took is one of many that are possible – in rare cases where vaccines drive evolution.
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
Farmers have built their barns and established their routines around the more common diseases of turkeys and chickens — Marek’s disease, infectious bronchitis, fowl cholera — which can be prevented with vaccinations and good hygiene.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2016
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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