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Published Date: 2019-01-14 11:08:56
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Pneumonia ovine - USA (05): (UT) bighorn sheep
Archive Number: 20190114.6257417
PNEUMONIA OVINE - USA (05): (UTAH) BIGHORN SHEEP
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Date: Fri 11 Jan 2019
Source: Standard-Examiner, Associated Press (AP) report [edited]
https://www.standard.net/news/local/bighorn-sheep-on-utah-s-antelope-island-dying-from-disease/article_0ae93aa2-bbe9-58a6-8838-5bae644c5810.html


The Division of Wildlife Resources has found that a herd of bighorn sheep on Antelope Island [Utah] has somehow contracted a devastating respiratory disease and is dying off.

About 150 animals were counted among the herd last year [2018]. But KSL-TV reports biologists on [Wed 9 Jan 2019] flew over the island and found only 26 sheep left.

Division of Wildlife Resources spokesman Mark Hadley says, "This disease has taken all of the sheep," and there are no vaccinations or medications that can treat it.

Hadley says bighorn sheep contract the disease from domestic sheep and goats.

Hadley says the division is unsure how the disease got into the herd because there are no domestic sheep and goats on the island that officials are aware of.

The division is working with Utah State Parks to try to figure out how the sheep contracted the disease.

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[Bighorn sheep pneumonia has traditionally been considered a multifactorial disease, caused by multiple pathogens. Due to their complexity, understanding multifactorial phenomena like this, usually require integrated and sustained research efforts. The absence of established and universal explanations for pneumonia outbreaks contributes to conflict among wildlife and livestock stakeholders over land use and management practices.

Bighorn sheep pneumonia web of causation may have an important environmental component. In recent years, die-offs of bighorn sheep in several locations suggests that the proximate cause of these events may be a shared environmental determinant.

However, recent evidence indicates that in northwestern USA there seems to be a pathogen implicated in bighorn sheep outbreaks, _Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae_, an exotic disease agent for North America, introduced by domestic ovids.

For a picture of a bighorn sheep go to http://b50ym1n8ryw31pmkr4671ui1c64.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/Bighorn_Cal-Bebee-620x411.jpeg. -Mod.PMB

HealthMap/ProMED-mail map of Utah, United States: http://healthmap.org/promed/p/64815]

See Also

2018
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Pneumonia, ovine - USA (04): (WY) wild ungulates, alert 20181010.6082769
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (03): (UT,NV) bighorn sheep 20180806.5949871
Pneumonia ovine - USA (02): (AK) wild ungulates, alert 20180622.5870054
Pneumonia ovine - USA: (AK) wild ungulates, alert 20180316.5691371
2017
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Pneumonia, ovine - USA: (AK,WY) wild ungulates, alert 20171214.5503293
2016
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Pneumonia ovine - USA (07): (SD) bighorn sheep 20161223.4719622
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (06): (MT) bighorn sheep 20161107.4611801
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (05): (CA) bighorn sheep 20160519.4232401
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (04): (NV) bighorn sheep 20160409.4149360
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (03): (NV) bighorn sheep 20160219.4033226
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (02): (AZ) bighorn sheep 20160109.3923355
Pneumonia, ovine - USA: (AZ) bighorn sheep 20160105.3911283
2015
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Pneumonia, ovine - USA (04): (CA) bighorn sheep 20151014.3714877
Pneumonia, ovine - USA (03): (ND) bighorn sheep 20150920.3659146
Pneumonia ovine - USA (02): (MT) bighorn sheep 20150409.3286818
Pneumonia, ovine - USA: (MT) bighorn sheep 20150121.3106944
2014
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Pneumonia, ovine - USA: (MT) bighorn sheep 20141229.3060886
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