Corona19 emerged as a promising hypothesis as hundreds of elephants died one after another and experts were confused.

On Friday, local news reports reported that over 350 elephants were found dead in Botswana, where one third of Africa's total elephant population lives.

According to Dr. McCann of the African Wildlife Conservation Group, local conservationists flew around the elephant habitat in early May and found 169 elephant carcasses in just three hours. More than 350 elephants were found dead after an additional hundred bodies were found in a month-long expedition. It was not before that many elephants died in such a short period of time.

The government of Botswana, which began to grasp the situation, ruled out the possibility that poaching had occurred because the tusks of elephants remained. Some poachers frequently use cyanide, such as cyanide, to kill animals, but this time it wasn't because other animals showed no symptoms and only hundreds of elephants died. In the past year, naturally occurring anthrax has caused the deaths of more than 100 elephants, and Dr. McCann has carefully ruled out this possibility.


While the cause of death was in the labyrinth, experts noted that the surviving elephants exhibited unusual behavior. The elephants showed abnormal symptoms hovering around the same spot. The dead elephants also consistently fell on their heads on the floor.

Experts who judged that elephants suffered nervous system damage raised the possibility that infectious diseases that humans suffered could have spread to elephants through water and soil. "There is a potential for a public health crisis that transcends the species," McCann said, pointing out that coronal 19 infections may have started, particularly among elephants.

Local experts took samples from the dead elephants and commissioned a specialized agency for analysis. Results are expected within weeks.

This is'News Pick'.

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