Wednesday, 19 April 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax - Kenya: (LK) wildlife, NOT, RFI

Anthrax -- Kenya
Carcasses examined had common heavy tick infestation, frothy lungs, constipated pellet-like faeces and petechial haemorrhages in the spleen. A preliminary report by the Mountain Region Mobile Veterinary Unit seen by the Nation shows that the animals were dying of a disease of a tick-transmitted blood-borne pathogen. "The veracity of the infection and deaths suggest either wildlife is naive to the pathogen or a very high dose of infection," the report reads. The last anthrax outbreak in the

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