a viral disease of sheep causing muscular twitching and partial paralysis: transmitted by the bite of an infected tick (Ixodes ricinus)
Word origin
C18 louping, from loup2
Examples of 'louping ill' in a sentence
louping ill
Sera were tested using a goose blood haemagglutination inhibition assay for louping ill virus.
Barrett Damien, Collins Daniel M, McGrath Guy, Ó Muireagain Colm 2012, 'Seroprevalence of Louping Ill virus (LIV) antibodies in sheep submitted for post mortemexamination in the North West of Ireland in 2011', Irish Veterinary Journalhttp://www.irishvetjournal.org/content/65/1/20. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)