Marek's disease

American  

[mar-iks, mahr-] / ˈmær ɪks, ˈmɑr- /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.

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Etymology

Origin of Marek's disease

After Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907

Example Sentences

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

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

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