Anthrax hits Ugandan park hippos
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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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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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Bushmeat, Eg Grasscutter (&quot;Akrantie&quot;), Rat (&quot;Kusie&quot;), etc - eaten in Africa causes a virus similar to HIV, an expert has warned.
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A federal effort to quickly pinpoint and contain outbreaks of disease among livestock is coming under attack.
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The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)has suspended tourism activities on the Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park after an outbreak of anthrax, local press reported on Thursday.
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An anthrax outbreak has killed 194 hippos in western Uganda, wildlife officials said Tuesday, and scientists are struggling to develop a way to quickly diagnose and contain the disease.
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Human Genome Sciences said yesterday that ABthrax, its experimental treatment for anthrax infection, dramatically increased survival in animals exposed to lethal doses of anthrax spores.
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State health officials are expanding their early warning system for a bioterrorist attack by employing the help of rabbits, squirrels, mice and other critters.
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A new species of elephant shrew is discovered in Tanzania, scientists report.
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Maun, Botswana - An anthrax outbreak which has killed close to 200 buffaloes, elephants and a hippo in Botswana has spread to Namibia where it is posing a serious threat to livestock, officials said on Thursday.
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Rapid response with antibiotics would be a more effective way of handling an anthrax terror attack than a pre-emptive mass vaccination program, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The continued spread of the Ebola virus, along with hunting, could wipe out the species, researchers said.
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Activists warn Ugandan gov't of looming environmental crisis    KAMPALA, Sept.7 (Xinhua) -- Environmental activists in Uganda have warned of a looming environmental crisis in the east African country if the government does not take major steps to avert the disaster.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests. Federal ...
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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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An organism that may have played a part in killing thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the last five decades and in thwarting repopulation efforts has been isolated in a lab and found in struggling bighorn herds in the wild, biologists say.
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Tourist boat rides will resume on Monday in a Ugandan national park hit by an anthrax outbreak that has killed about 180 hippos in the last three months, officials said.