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equine infectious anemia

noun

Medical Definition of EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA

:  a serious sometimes fatal disease of horses that is caused by a retrovirus of the genus Lentivirus (species Equine infectious anemia virus) and is marked by intermittent fever, depression, weakness, edema, and anemia—called also swamp fever

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