Bacterial infection likely cause of death of elephant in Sabah


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 12 Jul 2018

KOTA KINABALU: The elephant which died at the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary on Wednesday (July 11) might have died due to a bacterial infection.

Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga said from the post mortem conducted on Thursday (July 12), it was found that the bull elephant  named Sapa had multiple organ dysfunction.

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