Three years ago, 200,000 saiga antelope--2/3 of the population--suddenly died en masse. Scientists are now closer to working out why, and their answer is worrying.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/why-did-two-thirds-of-this-weird-antelope-suddenly-drop-dead/550676/?utm_source=twb …
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I think we do know that its widespread in saigas (though that's not in this paper, to be fair - there's another one coming with more detail), and we have confirmed it as COD as best we can - what other confirmation would convince you? The tricky bit is why.
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You show disease A and bug B, and then hypothesize that B > A, but only when C (climate) is a factor. Problem is that there's no plausible mechanism for how B|C > A, and no experimental link either. So while it's an interesting hypothesis, this is not a proof.
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Man. It would be so cool if it was pasteurella. It certainly fits the symptoms, though this kind of die off is more consistent with avian strains and fowl cholera. Massive blood contamination with bugs and fast time to death.
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