"anthrax" prevod sa engleskog na srpski

Množina: anthraxes

ETYM Latin, from Greek anthrax coal, carbuncle.
A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people; SYN. splenic fever.
Severe infectious disease of cattle and sheep, communicable to human beings; boil cause by this.
Disease of livestock, occasionally transmitted to humans, usually via infected hides and fleeces. It may develop as black skin pustules or severe pneumonia. Treatment is with antibiotics. Vaccination is effective.
Anthrax is caused by a bacillus (Bacillus anthracis). In the 17th century, some 60,000 cattle died in a European pandemic known as the Black Bane, thought to have been anthrax. The disease is described by the Roman poet Virgil and may have been the cause of the biblical fifth plague of Egypt.