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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,"...

The death toll of horses at a wild horse facility in Cañon City rose to 85 as of Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management said.

An “unknown, yet highly contagious” illness has killed 67 formerly wild horses at the Bureau of Land Management’s holding facility in Cañon City since April 23, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

Wild Horses Continue to Overpopulate Public Lands

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - An unknown and highly contagious disease has killed 67 wild horses in less than a week at a federal corral in Colo...