Some 60 Hippos Die Mysteriously in Uganda
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Some 60 hippos have died from an unknown cause in the past two months in one of Uganda's national parks, an official said Tuesday.
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Violent thunderstorms have driven seven distressed kangaroos to death at a Mexican zoo, say veterinarians who are now pampering the remaining three mothers and their babies.
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CHICAGO Elephants and employees at Lincoln Park Zoo are being tested for tuberculosis after an elephant died over the weekend. Zoo officials say the 35-year-old female African elephant that collapsed and died Saturday mostly likely had tuberculosis.
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AFRICA - Epidemie di meningite e colera mietono vittime in Uganda  e Sudan; vaccinazione di massa per 150.000 persone Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Una recente epidemia di meningite si Ã¨ diffusa nel campo di Rhino, nell'Uganda settentrionale, propagandosi verso nord e raggiungendo la cittÃ  di Nimule nel Sudan meridionale. Da quest'ultimo focolaio sono state registrate cin...
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At least 60 people drowned at sea off southwest Cameroon at the weekend when a wooden motor boat packed with passengers and cargo capsized on its way to neighboring Nigeria, a local official said on Monday.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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More than 70 people, mainly soldiers, are killed in Uganda when a truck crashes in mountains in the east.
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The deaths of two chimpanzees named Ashley and Rex, and a close call for a third, Topsy, at a government facility in the New Mexico desert have resulted in criminal charges against Wilmington's Charles River Laboratories, the world's largest supplier of lab animals.
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AMSTERDAM -- Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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Â·  Chaos as rescue teams rush to save villagers Â·  More than sixty now dead despite mass evacuation
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Scientists struggle to contain an anthrax epidemic which has killed nearly 200 hippos in a Ugandan national park.
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A deadly new strain of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis discovered in South Africa is likely to have spread beyond the rural area where 52 of the 53 people diagnosed with it have died, the doctor who discovered the super bug said.
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A truck carrying soldiers and their families overturned in eastern Uganda, killing 72 people, the army spokesman said Monday.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 120 hippos in Uganda, raising the toll from a disease that has claimed hundreds of wild animals in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in recent weeks, a senior official said Tuesday.
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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Dozens of whales and dolphins mysteriously beached themselves on an Australian island on Sunday, state government officials said. Some 72 pilot whales and 30 bottle nose dolphins died at Sea Elephant Bay on
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SOROTI, Uganda - Fish swam alongside the dugout canoes residents were using to flee their flooded homes, riding the water gushing through the streets of this town in eastern Uganda.