Peste des petits ruminants — Mongolia
The international pledge to eradicate a devastating livestock disease affecting mostly sheep and goats has taken on new urgency in the wake of a mass die-off of a rare Mongolian antelope.
Some 900 saiga antelopes (_Saiga tatarica mongolica_) — almost 10 percent of the sub-species’ population — have been found dead in Mongolia’s western Khovd province. Samples taken from carcasses indicated the animals were positive for peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a highly fatal viral disease with
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