duck virus hepatitis

duck virus hepatitis
a highly fatal, rapidly spreading disease of waterfowl ducklings, caused by a virus of the genus Avihepadnavirus, characterized primarily by hepatitis marked by an enlarged, mottled, hemorrhagic liver.

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