Wednesday, 10 October 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Pneumonia, ovine - USA (04): (WY) wild ungulates, alert

Pneumonia -- United States
Signs of bighorn sheep were scattered inches away from the cliff edge: Dirt packed down from where they slept, round droppings, and a still-pungent smell. The animals themselves were gone, melting away into distant layers of mountain and rock.
Steve Kilpatrick, a retired biologist now leading the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation, was in the mountains on the border of Grand Teton National Park in August [2018] surveying sheep as part of an annual effort to keep tabs on its dwindling

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6082769&promed&0

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