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3 unusual facts about Epizootic


Epizootic

Aquaculture is an industry sometimes plagued by disease because of the large number of fish confined to a small area.

Tarbagan marmot

Epizootics of the plague are known to occur in tarbagan marmots in northeastern China and Mongolia.

World Organisation for Animal Health

It was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics (still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties – OIE) on 25 January 1924.


Dave Dufort

In 1979 he joined Pär Ericsson and Bengt Fischer, two former members of the progressive rock band Epizootic in their E. F. Band, but left before their first album.

Equine herpesvirus 9

Equine herpesvirus 9 (EHV-9) is a virus of the family Herpesviridae that isolated from a case of epizootic encephalitis in a herd of Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) in 1993.

Great Boston Fire of 1872

A horse flu epizootic that spread across North America that year had immobilized Boston's fire department horses.

South Korea foot-and-mouth outbreak

A ProMED-mail post described the epizootic and subsequent cancellations of festivities as being reminiscent of Britain's February 19, 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, and even more so of an outbreak in Japan beginning late March 2010, which was caused by the same strain of the virus.


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