A highly infectious disease of pigs caused by a pestivirus and characterized in its classical form by high fever, lassitude, purple discoloration of abdominal skin, conjunctivitis and nervous signs including circling, incoordination, tremor and convulsions.
His birth name we are told was Tuthmosis, meaning Born of the god Thoth, though this is a Greek version. His actual Egyptian name was Djehutymes I, but he is also sometimes referred to as Thutmose I, or Thutmosis I. His thrown name was A-Kheper-ka-re (Aakheperkara).
Menkheperre Thutmose III, was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He is consistently regarded as one of the greatest of Egypt's warrior pharaohs, transforming Egypt into an internationally respected superpower by creating an empire that stretched from southern Syria, Canaan and through to Nubia.