pullorum
/pʊˈlɔːrəm/Veterinary Med.
noun
In full pullorum disease. An acute, infectious, often fatal disease of young poultry chicks (and other young domesticated birds), caused by a type of salmonella bacterium (Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum).
Origin
1920s. From scientific Latin pullorum, used as specific epithet in Bacterium pullorum.