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A Strange Type of Anthrax Is Killing Chimpanzees - C C - Aug 3, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/a-strange-type-of-anthrax-is-killing-chimpanzees/535521/
EXCERPT: No one knows where it came from, how it spreads, or why it infects so many mammal species. [...] Leendertz and his colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin have now shown that it’s a startlingly prolific killer, responsible for more than a third of mammalian deaths in the Taï forest. And it is likely to wipe out the local chimpanzees within the next 150 years....