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PRO/AH/EDR> Pneumonia, ovine – Canada: (BC) bighorn sheep, population decline

Pneumonia -- CanadaThe contagious disease has already wiped out 80 per cent of a herd of bighorn sheep near Clinton, British Columbia [BC].A BC conservation group is worried about a herd of California bighorn sheep after a lethal bacterial disease was identified in 2 lambs in a herd of sheep near Penticton in the Okanagan.The bacteria can cause pneumonia in both domestic and wild sheep and goats, but it is particularly harmful to wild sheep herds, according to the BC Wild Sheep Society."It's a little Read more [...]