murrain

/ˈmɜrɪn/
noun
  1. A contagious disease that affects farm animals, especially cattle.
    • The farmer lost half his herd to murrain last winter.
    • In medieval times, murrain could wipe out entire villages' livestock.
    • Vaccines have made murrain much less common in modern farming.
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