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Meerkats - Updates … - meerkats in Africa dying of tuberculosis - Brief Article

Animals,  Fall, 2002  

Tuberculosis, most likely spread by infected ecotourism workers, has struck populations of African meerkats and another mongoose species. It is uncertain how a group of Kalahari Desert meerkats, which were wiped out, contracted the disease, but researchers speculate that the mongooses were exposed after finding their way into a Botswana hotel's dump....

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