2018 CVM News: Cause of mysterious mass death of saiga antelopes uncovered
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This news item is about: Scientists have discovered that the sudden death of over 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015 was likely due to environmental factors that triggered a deadly bacterium. These critically endangered antelopes live in the remote steppe grassland of Central Asia. The deaths amounted to over 60 percent of the global population of the species. A paper in Science Advances describes how the healthy animals died of blood poisoning caused by the Pasteurella multocida bacterium. The mass deaths occurred while they were calving.
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2018-01-18
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Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
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Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine -- Periodicals.; Beauvais, Wendy; Cordova, Melanie Greaver; Ivanek, Renata
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