snotsiekte, noun

/ˈsnɔtsiktə/
Forms:
snort sick, snort sickteShow more Also snort sick, snort sickte, snotziekte.
Origin:
South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch snot nasal mucus + ziekte disease.
Pathology
Any of several catarrhal diseases affecting livestock (see quotation 1914).
[1850 R.G.G. Cumming Hunter’s Life II. 362A horrible and very fatal illness, called by the Boers ‘snot sickness,’ which cattle are very liable to from pasturing on ground frequented by black wildebeests.]
a1875 T. Baines Jrnl of Res. (1964) II. 34Mr. Francis..complained that his cattle were dying daily of an epidemic disease that produces blindness and subsequently death...This is called here the snort sickte and is generally regarded as incurable, but McCabe has found a decoction of wild olive leaves, used hot as a wash, very effective if applied in time.
a1875 T. Baines Jrnl of Res. (1964) II. 39An ox..had died during the night, of the ‘snort sick’.
1912 Agric. Jrnl of Cape of G.H. Jan. 139 (Pettman)The term snotziekte does not describe any particular or specific disease; it is a term applied when excessive mucous discharge is observed to run from the nose, such discharge being seen in different diseases, in different species of animals, and is due to many different causes.
1914 Farmer’s Annual 205The term ‘snotziekte’ is applied by the average farmer to any disease of animals in which there is a pronounced mucous discharge from the nostrils, such as is seen in glanders, strangles, influenza, inflammation of the lungs, or a severe cold in equines, or in cattle suffering from tuberculosis, ordinary cold, or the presence of some foreign body, such as a nail, piece of wire, or pin in their lungs.
1925 E. Prov. Herald 27 July 10Many years ago when game was plentiful, it was observed..that a peculiar disease which they called snotsiekte..broke out among their cattle in contact with wildebeeste.
1979 T. Gutsche There Was a Man 369J.B. Quinlan dealt with an aspect of bovine Contagious Abortion and R.W.M. Mettam..with ‘Snotziekte’, a sporadic cattle disease.
1989 J. du P. Bothma Game Ranch Management 625Snotsiekte or malignant catarrh is a problem common to all large warm-blooded ungulates.
1991 Personality 5 Aug. 31Buyers of black and blue wildebeest and buffalo have to be registered as a control on snotsiekte and corridor disease respectively.
Any of several catarrhal diseases affecting livestock (see quotation 1914).
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