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  1. Acute viral disease of cattle (sometimes also
  2. sheep and goats) characterized by fever and
  3. bloody diarrhoea, due to inflammation of the
  4. intestines. It can be fatal. Almost
  5. eliminated in the 1960s, it revived in Africa
  6. in the 1980s.
  7.