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Mass Anthrax Outbreak Kills Dozens of Hippos in African National Park


Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

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