bovine disease meaning

• [Medicine]
  Diseases of domestic cattle of the genus Bos. It includes diseases of cows,yaks,and zebus.

• bovine viral diarrhea mucosal disease:    [Medicine]Acute di ...
• bovine virus diarrhea mucosal disease:    [Medicine]Acute di ...
• bovine virus diarrhea-mucosal disease:    [Medicine]Acute di ...

Examples

1. The bovine disease can weaken and kill livestock.
2. Evidence has linked the bovine disease with a fatal human brain condition, Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
3. Although most cases of the bovine disease have occurred in Britain, there have been a few here too.
4. The source of the bovine disease is thought to be animal feed from processed offal and other parts of slaughtered sheep.
5. Two more cases have been since confirmed in what was the first outbreak of the brain-wasting bovine disease outside Europe.