AR-News: (U.S.) goats suspected re bighorn sheep disease

[Mary Finelli]

DOMESTIC GOATS ARE SUSPECTS IN SPREAD OF DISEASE TO BIGHORN SHEEP
Associated Press, 04/12/2004
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D81SVH400.html


A pneumonia-like disease that once raced through several Hells Canyon 
bighorn sheep herds is resurfacing, foiling efforts of wildlife managers to 
restore the sheep.

A decade ago as many as 300 sheep were killed by the bacterial disease, 
pasteurella. It first swept through Hells Canyon bighorn sheep herds in 
1995, killing sheep on the western side of the canyon from the Grand Ronde 
River to the Imnaha River. Now herds that had no exposure to the 1995 
outbreak are becoming sick.

Biologists from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the Oregon 
Department of Fish and Wildlife suspect domestic goats grazing near the rim 
of the canyon have infected the Big Canyon herd that roams just north of 
Pittsburg Landing on the Idaho side of the river.

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