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India: Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus (PPRV) threatening Gir lions

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...hreatening-Gir-lions/articleshow/20078521.cms

Deadly virus threatening Gir lions
Kounteya Sinha, TNN | May 16, 2013, 04.46 AM IST

LONDON: A deadly virus that wiped out a significant number of wild lions in the African Serengeti in mid 1990s is now threatening Gir ? home to India's only population of lions.

Scientists in India recently found Pestes des Petits Ruminants Virus (PPRV) to be behind the death of a lion in Gir ? the first such incident ever.

PPRV is the same virus that in 1994 killed 1,000 lions ? one-third of the Serengeti population...
 
Re: India: Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus (PPRV) threatening Gir lions

Source: http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/131...g-virus-gir-are-false-said-gujarat-government


Warning Raised on lion-killing virus in Gir are False, said Gujarat Government
Submitted by Annabel Tautou on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 07:23


The menace of the life threatening virus, which is accused for killing a large number of wild lions in the African Serengeti in mid-1990s, is rising again. The outbreak have apparently supported the proposal of transferring the Asiatic lions from its only home in Gujarat to a new argumentative habitat in Madhya Pradesh.

Sources clearly depicted that the scientists in India had found in the recent times that Pestes des Petits Ruminants Virus (PPRV) was a region behind the death of a lion in Gir. It is the same virus that was responsible of killing 1,000 lions in 1994.

The number was supposed to be one-third of the Serengeti population. TOI have discovered the fact that the study that got accomplished in year 2012 was based on the samples extracted from lion's carcass in year 2006.

However, the existence of the virus is not assured yet. The virus has also not hit affected the lion population in the last seven years. The lion population in Gir has hiked up from 360 to 411 during the same time span.

The Gujarat government suspects that the pro-transfer reception was a trial of grabbing an international endorsement. The issue of concern is currently with the Supreme Court...
 
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