swine fever

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. hog cholera.

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swine fever British  

noun

1. US term: hog cholera.  an infectious viral disease of pigs, characterized by fever, refusal to eat, weight loss, and diarrhoea

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Etymology

Origin of swine fever

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Spain has found another seven dead wild boars infected with African swine fever near Barcelona, increasing the outbreak's total to nine cases, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.

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African swine fever is also present in the Baltic states and eastern Europe, where it arrived from Russia in 2014.

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Spain's pork industry is "very concerned" by a growing African swine fever outbreak among wild boars that has sparked jitters about the world's third-largest producer of the meat and its derivatives.

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Swine fever does not affect humans but is highly contagious and lethal for pigs, storing up potentially devastating consequences for the pork sector.

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"The direct health impact in farms is none, there is no African swine fever in domestic pigs in Spain," he stressed.

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