50 dead hypopotamos were found. It was killed by a dangerous bacterium for people

The first disturbing signs of the employees of the Virunga National Park began to notice a few days ago. They came across dead animals in the Ishash River and its surroundings. Preliminary estimates talk about at least 50 dead hippos. Other large animals were also fallen, including buffaloes.

50 dead hippopotams in the Wirunga National Park

Studies of animal remains confirmed that the cause of the death of hippo was infection with an infection. It is not known how water was contaminated. The Virunga National Park is one of the oldest in Africa, and its employees have been trying to rebuild the hippo population for years.

In 2006, war and poaching led to a limitation of the number of hippos from 20,000. to about several hundred. Currently, they live in the Democratic Republic of Congo about 1200.

Wąglik in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authorities are alerting

The park authorities said that they are now trying to pick out all dead animals. As emphasized in the messages, the Wąglik Laszek (Bacillus Anthracis) gets into the organisms of wild animals through contact with contaminated water or soil. Then they fall into the Wąglik, which is an extremely serious disease, deadly also dangerous for people.

Local politicians appealed to the inhabitants of the park so that they would not approach wild animals and cook water before drinking it. The fears are considerable because the Ishash River is connected to Edward’s Lake, where the corpses of animals were also found. – In the waters of the lake, from Kagezi to Nyakakoma, there are over 25 bodies of hypopotamas – one of the residents reported in an interview with Reuters.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second in terms of area and the third in the population of Africa. It is located in the central part of the continent and has about 105 million inhabitants.