A contagious disease affecting horses, transmitted sexually, causing inflammation and eventual paralysis.
From Arabic dourine meaning 'the disease.' The word was adopted by veterinary science in the 19th century when the disease was documented in North African and Middle Eastern horse populations.
Dourine is so specifically a sexually transmitted horse disease that it became one of the first animal VDs that scientists could actually study and understand!
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