Mar|ek's disease

Mar|ek's disease
Mar|ek's disease «MAIR ihks»,
a contagious disease of the lymph system of chickens, caused by a herpesvirus and resulting in paralysis, blindness, and tumors; fowl paralysis. It is the most common form of the avian leucosis complex.
[< Jacob Marek, a German veterinarian of the 1900's]

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