African horse sickness

English

Noun

African horse sickness (uncountable)

  1. A potentially fatal infection of horses and other equids caused by a virus in the genus Orbivirus, transmitted mostly by a biting midge, Culicoides imicola, and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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