Marek’s disease









Marek’s disease


Marek’s disease [mar-iks, mahr-] Word Origin noun Veterinary Pathology.

  1. a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.

Origin of Marek’s disease after Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907Also called fowl paralysis, range paralysis.

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