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DailyMail:Mystery of what killed 60,000 antelope in four DAYS solved?


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Mystery of what killed 60,000 antelope in four DAYS solved?

 

It was rapid, massive loss of life that devastated the population of one of the planet's most endangered species of antelope and has horrified conservationists.

But clues to what wiped out half of Kazakhstan's saiga antelope in just a couple of weeks are now starting to emerge.

Scientists believe the deaths may have been caused by bacteria that normally live harmlessly in the animals' bodies turning on them.

 

Professor Richard Kock, a wildlife veterinarian from the Royal Veterinary College in London, was part of the team that went to Kazakhstan to investigate the deaths.

He told Nature: 'I have worked in veterinary diseases all my career and I have never seen 100 per cent mortality.

'We had a herd of 60,000 aggregated and they all died. That is extraordinary.'

 

 
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