Pasteurellosis might have caused saigak die-off

    Endangered saigaks that died recently in Karaganda and Akmola oblasts might have contracted pasteurellosis, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported September 10, citing Bakytbek Duisekeyev, Environment Protection Ministry Forestry and Hunting Committee head.     Investigators have counted 493 dead saigaks, rather than the 3,000 initially reported, he said during a briefing, adding that the antelopes' carcasses...