獣じゅう疫えき

noun

cattle plague; rinderpest

Technical veterinary term for a contagious disease affecting cattle and other livestock; rinderpest is the specific historical disease, but the term can refer to similar epizootics.

• 獣じゅう疫えきの発はっ生せいにより、多おおくの牛うしが処しょ分ぶんされた。

  Due to an outbreak of cattle plague, many cattle were culled.

• 獣じゅう疫えきは国こっ境きょうを越こえて広ひろがる恐おそれがある。

  Cattle plague can spread across borders.