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shipping fever

n.
Any of various viral or bacterial diseases contracted by cattle and other ruminants especially during shipping or similarly stressful situations, characterized by fever, lack of appetite, and coughing.
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multocida, enveloping all lung lobes, which are distinct and uncommon gross lesions caused by that bacteria, being the lesions most commonly described in severe cases of shipping fever involvingM.
Shipping fever in cattle is an example of a systemic disease - the animals have eye discharges, respiratory and digestive problems, and other aches and pains.
The biggest risk to stallions in air transit is not injury but respiratory diseases, often given the blanket name 'shipping fever'.
Shipping fever, as the disease is more commonly known, affects calves about 1 week after they are transported from the cow and calf operations where they were born to the feedlots where they finish their growth.
ULUNDI'S recovery from a bout of shipping fever that forced him to miss the Hong Kong International meeting is put to the test when he begins his campaign for major honours at Sandown today.
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