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PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax – Botswana (02): (NC) Okavango Delta, elephant, NOT

Anthrax -- BotswanaAnthrax and poisoning have been ruled out as possible causes of a rising number of unexplained elephant deaths in Botswana, the country with the world's largest population of the animals.Wildlife authorities have now discovered 110 carcasses in northwest Botswana, up from the 56 announced earlier in May 2020, according to a government statement."I would say 90% of the new cases we have found are old carcasses we previously did not locate," said Dimakatso Ntshebe, a regional wildlife Read more [...]