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English noun: shipping fever

1. shipping fever (state) a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)


Synonymsshipping pneumonia


Broader (hypernym)animal disease, blood poisoning, septicaemia, septicemia









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