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  • Subject: [monkeywire] 6 chimpanzees in quarantine after seventh dies
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:50:28 EDT



www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-chimpdies,0,7648147.story
chicagotribune.com
6 chimpanzees in quarantine after seventh dies
Associated Press
9:29 PM CDT, March 26, 2009
CHICAGO

Keepers at the Lincoln Park Zoo had six ailing chimpanzees in quarantine and
under close observation Thursday after the recent death of another chimp
from a mysterious respiratory illness.

Kipper, a 9-year-old and the youngest member of a group headed by a male
chimp named Hank, died Tuesday in the zoo hospital, where he had been taken
a
day earlier. Zoo spokeswoman Sharon Dewar said Kipper and the others six
developed flu-like symptoms last week.

"We are guessing it's a virus, but we don't really know exactly what it is,"
Dewar said Thursday.

Because the illness appears contagious, the surviving six chimps were being
kept in isolation from all other chimps and gorillas that live in the zoo's
Regenstein Center for African Apes. The affected group is the chimp family
normally on public view at the ape house.

A necropsy performed on Kipper after he died indicated the cause of death as
pneumonia, according to Steve Thompson, the zoo's vice president of
conservation programs.

Great apes like chimpanzees and gorillas suffer the same types respiratory
diseases as humans, Thompson said.

On Thursday keepers reported the members of Hank's group showed signs of
runny noses and listlessness.

As the symptoms persisted over the weekend, zoo officers took Hank's group
off display and put them in quarantine quarters in the ape house lower
level.

After going into isolation with the rest of the group, Kipper, who suffered
from a congenital condition that may have decreased the pumping capacity of
his lungs, on Monday took a turn for the worse, Thompson said.





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