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pullorum ‎(uncountable)

(veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium. [from 20th c.]
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 246:
  I should recount my own experience with chooks – and I do not mean the difficulties, with lice, mites, fowl pox, pullorum or bum-drop about which subjects Goon's otherwise taciturn cousin gave me enough information to last a lifetime.

pullōrum