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coast diseasenoun [mass noun] AustralianA disease of sheep caused by deficiency in certain minerals, formerly prevalent in coastal southern Australia: the application of copper sulphate eliminated coast disease...- A cure for coast disease, a wasting disease of sheep, was discovered in the late 1930s by Marston and his team at the Division of Animal Nutrition.
- If the sheep were not moved inland every year, they became anaemic and wasted away until, often, they died—the settlers called this mysterious ailment coast disease.
- In 1928, a visiting South African veterinarian suggested that coast disease might be caused by a deficiency of phosphorus.
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