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Af·ri·can horse sickness

n :  a serious and commonly fatal disease of horses that is caused by an orbivirus, that is endemic in parts of central and southern Africa, that is characterized by fever, edematous swellings, and internal hemorrhage, and that is transmitted by some biting flies - called also horsesickness  .
 
 

 
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