Eight of the monkeys were found dead on Sunday at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which manages the zoo, said in a statement ...

HONG KONG, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Melioidosis, a bacterial infection, was responsible for killing at least nine monkeys at a Hong Kong zoo, authorities said, as a further two died over the weekend ...

Visitors look at a buff-cheeked gibbon at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens after 11 monkeys died of sepsis following melioidosis infection in the past week, in Hong Kong on October 21, 2024.

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Melioidosis, a bacterial infection, was responsible for killing at least nine monkeys at a Hong Kong zoo, authorities said, as a further two died over the weekend, taking the ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Nine monkeys who died in Hong Kong's oldest zoo in two days this week had been infected with an endemic disease, possibly after some digging work near their cages, ...

Visitors look at a buff-cheeked gibbon at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens after 11 monkeys died of sepsis following melioidosis infection in the past week, in Hong Kong on October 21, 2024.

Hong Kong previously experienced a widespread outbreak of melioidosis in 2022, with dozens of cases recorded in Sham Shui Po. 4. Can animals pass the virus to humans?

Citing an autopsy report, an official said on Friday that abrupt death of nine monkeys in two days at a Hong Kong zoo was caused by melioidosis, a bacterial infection.

Hong Kong zoo investigating after nine monkeys die in two days. Eight of the animals were found dead on Sunday and another died on Monday after displaying unusual behaviour at Hong Kong Zoological ...

HONG KONG — Eight animals were found dead in a Hong Kong zoo, the city's government said on Monday, a rare incident in the financial hub, with necropsy and laboratory tests arranged to find out ...

Nine monkeys, three critically endangered cotton-top tamarins, have died in mysteriously in Hong Kong's oldest zoo. On Sunday, eight monkeys were discovered dead. On Monday, another monkey ...