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PRO/AH/EDR> Pneumonia, ovine – USA: (WA,OR) bighorn sheep

Pneumonia -- United StatesLast week [last of October 2020], wild bighorn sheep herds in Washington and Oregon have been detected with deadly pneumonia, likely caused by a deadly pathogen spread by domestic sheep grazing on public lands. The bighorn are dying slow and painful deaths because they have no natural immunity to the livestock-borne disease.In Washington, the Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that deadly pneumonia had been detected in the Cleman Mountain herd of bighorn sheep, located Read more [...]