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

Pneumonia -- United StatesThe Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) has confirmed a disease event affecting a portion of the bighorn sheep population in the Black Mountains of northwest Arizona.After receiving reports in early December [2015] from hunters who observed bighorn sheep in Game Management Unit 15D exhibiting coughing or nasal discharge, the department conducted a spot survey of the northern portion of the unit on 9 Dec 2015. Tissue samples from 3 ewes, each animal culled from a different Read more [...]