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sheep pox

n :  a disease of sheep and possibly goats that is caused by a poxvirus related to the one causing smallpox and was formerly epizootic in warmer Old World areas, is marked by formation of vesicles or pocks esp. on the bare or thinly wooled areas of the body, and is frequently complicated by a secondary septic infection .
 
 

 
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