PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed die-off, raccoon dogs – China (02): comment

Animal Die-off — China
The number of individuals involved in this die-off indicates that it is unlikely to involve a wild population, and could involve a disease outbreak associated with the dumping of carcasses from a captive breeding farm [“fur farm”], or an outbreak from a recent mass escape. This species is farmed commercially for it’s fur in China, Russia, and some other countries.
Raccoon dogs are non-gregarious territorial canids with exclusive home ranges in the wild, so a natural aggregation even at a