“sheep disease”

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Nairobi sheep disease

noun

: a severe and frequently fatal gastroenteritis of sheep or sometimes goats that occurs in parts of Kenya and is caused by a single-stranded RNA virus (Orthonairovirus nairobiense of the family Nairoviridae) transmitted by the bite of an African tick especially of the genus Rhipicephalus (R. appendiculatus)


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