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Horror as 50 poisoned hippos wash up dead in national park
UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/08/2025 | SABRINA PENTY

Posted on 04/08/2025 7:21:59 AM PDT by DFG

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa's great lakes

Tests confirmed anthrax poisoning, said Virunga Park director Emmanuel De Merode, on Tuesday, adding that buffalo have been killed too.

The exact cause of the poisoning was not yet clear.

Images shared by the park show the hippopotamuses motionless on their sides and backs in the Ishasha River, or caught among foliage on the river's muddy banks.

The deaths represent a major loss for the park, which has been working to increase the number of hippos in recent decades after poaching and war reduced the population from over 20,000 to a few hundred by 2006.

The park now holds about 1,200 hippos.

Park guards noticed there was a problem when the dead animals started to appear about five days ago along the river, which forms Congo's border with Uganda and runs through an area under the control of rebel fighters.

Anthrax is a serious disease usually caused by bacteria found naturally in soil. Wild animals can become infected if they inhale anthrax spores in contaminated soil, plants, or water.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation warned residents to avoid wildlife in the area and to boil water from local sources before drinking.

De Merode said that a team was on site and that they were trying to get the hippos out of the water and bury them, but that it was difficult because they did not have excavators.

'It's difficult due to lack of access and logistics,' De Merode told Reuters.

'We have the means to limit the spread (of the disease) by...burying them with caustic soda.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 04/08/2025 7:21:59 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

They refused Gyorgy Soros’ offer.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 7:25:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Jose! HANDS OFF our tax dollars, hospitals, schools, social security, jobs and our history.)
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To: DFG

Leave the Colombian Hippos alone. They may be needed to re-populate the African hippos


3 posted on 04/08/2025 7:26:52 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: DFG

Stay up wind of that area.


4 posted on 04/08/2025 7:28:14 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: DFG

Saying they were poisoned indicates intent.

Anthrax can be found in the wild and spread without human intervention.


5 posted on 04/08/2025 7:28:40 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DFG

50 poisoned hippos - A new film by Quentin Tarentino


6 posted on 04/08/2025 7:30:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DFG

Clean them up with dynamite like they did in Oregon with the whale in 1970.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 7:31:59 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2 (I found this in the grocery store a couple months ago. Something I haven't had since the 1970s I th)
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8 posted on 04/08/2025 7:32:17 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2 (I found this in the grocery store a couple months ago. Something I haven't had since the 1970s I th)
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To: DFG

Were they Hungry Hungry Hippos?


9 posted on 04/08/2025 7:32:36 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: DFG

I predict Africa will be the first continent to become extinct.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 7:33:00 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DFG

I read it as “dead poisoned hippies washed up” and I thought, “I love the Bee.”


11 posted on 04/08/2025 7:38:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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Dead sperm whale explodes as biologist cuts open carcass
12 posted on 04/08/2025 7:39:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Vaquero

Reminds me of the scene in Narcos Mexico. Where Felix meets with Pablo Escobar. He is scared that Pablo was going to feed him to his Hippos. After being relieved that was not Pablo’s intent he asks him why?

Pablo replies that his Hippos hate Mexicans too.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 7:39:46 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: DFG

Jasmine Crockett needs a new gig...


14 posted on 04/08/2025 7:59:07 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Vaquero

That’s probably right, I hate to say.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 8:05:22 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: metmom

Will boiling the water neutralize the anthrax?


16 posted on 04/08/2025 8:05:42 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: DFG

Good. Now, get rid of the hundreds in the Amazon.


17 posted on 04/08/2025 8:06:01 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: kiryandil

I’m sure we aren’t the only ones that thought of Jasmine immediately.


18 posted on 04/08/2025 8:57:30 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Magnum44

Why?


19 posted on 04/08/2025 9:04:08 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: cnsmom

got that right. was hoping it was about the ubiquitous ghettopotami that infest so many places so big let down finding out it was the innocent who suffered. again.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 9:06:57 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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