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Vets rule out anthrax in deaths of wildlife in Laikipia
Monday April 17 2017
By SULEIMAN MBATIAH
Vets have ruled out an anthrax outbreak in Laikipia County, where a suspected zoonotic disease has killed wild animals.
Hundreds of wild animals, among them buffaloes, impalas and other herbivores, have died in conservancies and ranches in the last two weeks.
Conservancy owners believe the disease must have been brought in and circulated across the expansive ranches and conservancies by animals belonging to illegal herders who invaded their farms starting mid-2016.
?We have no reason not to believe that the disease was brought in by the herders,? said Josh Perrett, a manager at the 50,000-acre Mugie Conservancy...
Vets rule out anthrax in deaths of wildlife in Laikipia
Monday April 17 2017
By SULEIMAN MBATIAH
Vets have ruled out an anthrax outbreak in Laikipia County, where a suspected zoonotic disease has killed wild animals.
Hundreds of wild animals, among them buffaloes, impalas and other herbivores, have died in conservancies and ranches in the last two weeks.
Conservancy owners believe the disease must have been brought in and circulated across the expansive ranches and conservancies by animals belonging to illegal herders who invaded their farms starting mid-2016.
?We have no reason not to believe that the disease was brought in by the herders,? said Josh Perrett, a manager at the 50,000-acre Mugie Conservancy...