“horse fever”

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Potomac horse fever

noun

: an often fatal disease of horses that is marked by fever, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and laminitis, that is caused by a bacterium (Neorickettsia risticii), and that was discovered in the region of the Potomac River in Maryland but is much more widespread


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