Rubarth's disease
[ roo-bahrts, -bahrths ]
/ ˈru bɑrts, -bɑrθs /
noun
a common, rapidly progressing viral hepatitis of dogs and other carnivores, often confused with canine distemper.
Also called
infectious canine hepatitis.
Origin of Rubarth's disease
after Carl Sven
Rubarth (born 1905), Swedish veterinarian, who described it in 1947