Wood said there are many naturally-occurring pathogens that cause pneumonia in bighorn sheep, and animals are normally able ...

Biologists discovered symptomatic sheep during a collaring project in Hell Canyon. Photo by Patrick / Adobe Stock. Pneumonia in sheep is 50 to 80 percent fatal. Unfortunately, like most other wildlife ...

At least 20 desert bighorn sheep have died in a San Gorgonio mountain population in Southern California, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. The cause of death? Pneumonia, most likely from domestic ...

A Belgian sheep that has not been sheared for five years cannot have its wool removed in case it catches pneumonia. The animal was rescued from its owners in Overijse in Flemish Brabant and taken ...

HAMILTON - State wildlife officials have confirmed that bighorn sheep from the East Fork Bitterroot herd south of Darby recently died of pneumonia. "It's really bad news," said Craig Jourdonnais ...

Pneumonia is a threat to bighorn sheep in the Black Hills area now, the Department of Game Fish and Parks reported during the March 7 GFP Commission meeting. Skip to content.

“Pneumonia can cause all-age die-offs and chronic infections in adult and lamb bighorn sheep. This can persist for many years within a herd,” said Dr. Jennifer Ramsey, FWP wildlife veterinarian.

Bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon are turning up sick with pneumonia after more than five years without an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease. In an unfortunate turn, biologists said, the ...

BILLINGS -- Ten bighorn sheep have died over the past two weeks following an outbreak of pneumonia in a herd that lives along the upper Yellowstone River near Gardiner.

When those fat stores drop, researchers think the sheep may be more susceptible to pneumonia. So they authorized 16 tags for hunters to take ewes this past fall in the Gros Ventre.

The pneumonia outbreak that killed more than 500 bighorn sheep across six western Montana populations since late 2009 has reached an important juncture. FWP says effort to cull bighorns with ...