The Mysterious Deaths of Dozens of Elephants Solved
Scientists who have been working a cold case involving three dozen dead elephants in Zimbabwe have finally discovered the cause of death: bacterial infection.
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Scientists who have been working a cold case involving three dozen dead elephants in Zimbabwe have finally discovered the cause of death: bacterial infection.
Three years ago, dozens of African elephants mysteriously died in Zimbabwe. Now scientists have confirmed their killer: a rare and little-known bacterium that can cause organ inflammation leading to deadly hemorrhaging. According to a report by the Science News, the bacterium, dubbed Pasteurellaceae Bisgaard taxon 45, turned up in samples from six of 15 elephants analyzed,…
A bacterium never before identified in elephants or implicated in deadly internal hemorrhaging killed Zimbabwe elephants in 2020, genetic tests show.