The African buffalo: A villain for inter-species spread of ...
Bovine tuberculosis in African buffaloes has been well documented and can be described as a chronic, progressively debilitating condition (De Vos *et al.* 2001). It has spread throughout the buffalo population of the Kruger National Park and spilled into more than a dozen other wildlife species. There is a continuous risk for spillback into livestock and an associated zoonotic risk for animal owners, which is undetermined (Berg *et al.* 2011; Michel, Muller & Van Helden 2010).
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