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Contract it from someone else. >> you cant contract it from someone else or through drinking water. its mostly transmitted through mist. youre breathing in the mist from like say an air conditioning unit or cooling towers within a building. >> thank you for the reporting. i hope they get it under control soon. coming up next still no sign of the minnesota dentist who shot cecil the lion on what officials call an illegal hunt. what is next for cecils cubs and the other lions call that part home...

More in jep ar ti than it would have been. obviously at some point, jerichos going to come across new males. but a group of males of two or three or more decide to come in and want to take cecils pride, jerichos a single male now. he doesnt have a brother with him helping him fight. so unfortunately, he has very little chance of fighting off any other coalition. if jericho doesnt have any real pressure around his pride over the next year and a half meaning any single males coming or two younger ...

Cecils cubs? why would that happen? >> typically a younger age, when a young male gets kicked out of a pride they go on what they call a nomadic phase. and on that phase cecil and jericho met up and formed what we call a coalition. the reason they do that is they can hunt better and protect themselves better. and when it comes the right time and the right size theyre able to take over a pride together. so thats why jericho -- jericho formed an alliance with cecil. theyre not quite sure whose cub...

Law by luring the lion out of the park for killing him. meanwhile, wildlife authorities in zimbabwe are talking about false reports on jericho that a lion in cecils pride was killed. jericho is indeed still alive. this is a photograph of jericho taken this morning by an oxford researcher tracking him using a gps tag. cnns david mckenzie is in johannesburg this evening. >> reporter: any reports that jericho lion was killed by a hunter turned out to be false. in fact the group that put out that in...

Outright. it is with a bow that dr. palmer shot cecil last month causing this global outcry. he said he did nothing illegal. but officials are trying to extradite him, face charges from the u.s. to zimbabwe. that might be a tall order according to experts. the guide and hunter that he hired to kill cecil, though face charges this week in zimbabwe and could spend ten years in jail if found guilty. david mckenzie, cnn, johannesburg. >> david, thank you for that. cecils killing has sparked internat...