goatpox

goatpox
goat·pox (gōtґpoks) an acute, highly infectious disease of goats, caused by a poxvirus and less severe than sheeppox; characteristics include vesicular eruption with catarrh of the respiratory mucous membranes. Called also variola caprina.

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