Tuberculosis — Nepal
Researchers at a wildlife conservation preserve in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park have announced the 1st confirmed case of tuberculosis (TB) in a young female Asian one-horned rhino. This discovery is the 1st infectious disease discovered in the rhino population and a crucial step in the fight for rhino conservation.
The discovery has been published in a paper in Emerging Infectious Disease and is the result of research that began in 2012. The research called on experts and organizations
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