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PRO/AH> Peste des petits ruminants – Mongolia (03): (HD) saiga antelope
Peste des petits ruminants -- MongoliaThey found the 1st carcasses in late December [2016], on the frozen steppes of Mongolia's western Khovd [Hovd] province. By the end of January [2017], officials in the region had recorded the deaths of 2500 endangered saiga antelopes -- about 1/4 of the country's saiga population -- and scientists had identified a culprit: a virus called peste des petits ruminants, or PPR, also known as goat plague. It was the 1st time the disease, usually seen in goats, sheep, Read more [...]
