HONG KONG: An endangered breed of antelopes is dying off at an alarming pace in Asia, more specifically Kazakhstan, and the cause has baffled everyone, even the scientist!
To put matters into perspective, about one-third of the world’s population of saiga antelopes began dying last month. The deaths were so sudden that the cause has stumped scientists up to now and fueled conspiracy theorists’ imaginations.
According to Kazakhstan’s’ ministry of Agriculture, there were 250,000 saiga antelopes a month ago. With that many, the conservation was considered a success. But just a month later, 120,000, a third of that population,started to die. If the trend continues, none of the animals in the herd will remain alive.
According to Biologist EJ Milner-Gulland, the culprit is more likely a quickly spreading and fatal disease. Word from the U.N. says that Pasteurella and Clostridia, two forms of bacteria, are probably the cause of the mass deaths. However, these bacteria, according to experts, are opportunistic, meaning that they only attack animals with an already weakened immune system.
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