Anthrax kills 50 hippos in Congo's Virunga National Park

Anthrax poisoning fells 50 hippos at national park in Democratic Republic of the Congo

A group of at least 50 hippos at Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo were found dead from anthrax poisoning recently.

About 50 hippopotamuses were found dead on Tuesday 8 April in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their bodies were floating in a river in the Virunga National Park, in the east of the country. According to the park authorities, the animals were killed by contamination of the anthrax, the "anthrax disease" — a bacterium capable of surviving decades of spores in the earth. Transmissible to humans, the risk of spread to riparian populations worr…

Fifty hippos and other large animals die after being infected with anthrax in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

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According to the park director, some buffalo have also been killed, while noting that although tests have confirmed that the deaths were caused by anthrax poisoning, the exact cause of the poisoning is still unknown.

Anthrax kills 50 hippos in DRC’s Virunga National Park

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa’s great lakes, the head of the park said on Tuesday.