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The outbreak has killed at least 85 horses since Saturday, and laboratory tests are being completed to identify the fatal illness, the Bureau of Land Management said.
The Colorado state office of the Bureau of Land Management is working to learn what killed 67 wild horses kept at its Canon City Wild Horse Facility, about 300 miles from Utah.
DENVER (Reuters) -An unknown and highly contagious disease has killed 85 wild horses in less than a week at a federal corral in Colorado, officials said on Wednesday, revising the number upward from the previously announced death toll of 67. U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) spokesman Steven Hall told Reuters the entire facility holding more than 2,500 animals in Canon City, about 120 miles (190 km) southwest of Denver, is under quarantine. "Wild horses at the Wild Horse facility in Canon City have been infected with an unknown yet highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease,"...
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An "unknown yet highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease" has plagued a federal wild horse holding facility in Colorado, killing 67 horses.