Rabies -- Zimbabwe
On a recent, gloomy winter night at the Painted Dog Conservancy in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park [Matabeleland North], the matriarch of one of the strongest packs of African wild dogs in the country, succumbed to rabies; she was the last of her kin to do so, after the preventable disease killed her family earlier in the week. Rabies, while fairly common in domestic dogs throughout Asia and Africa, can take out entire wild populations of African cape or "painted" dogs -- a prospect many
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5683456&promed&0
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