: a mild virus disease of young pigs that is marked by fever, loss of appetite, relative indifference to normal stimuli, and formation of skin lesions suggestive of those of smallpox and that is caused by a poxvirus (Suipoxvirus swinepox) transmitted especially by the hog louse
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