30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-21T09:52:52 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Pathological findings in the mass mortality event of saiga antelope, May 2015 2018-09-10 publication 2018-06-05 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 10.5285/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 doi: Sánchez-Monge, F., Kock, R.A. (2018). Pathological findings in the mass mortality event of saiga antelope, May 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 Field-pathological findings of 33 saiga antelope carcasses (adults and new-born) found in two sites (Tengiz and Turgai, Kazakhstan) during a mass die-off event in May 2015. In Kazakhstan May 2015, approximately 200,000 saiga antelopes died within a month-period causing a loss of two-thirds of the global population. The dramatic event occurred during calving season when females and young males stop migrating and form massive aggregations for calving purposes. With 100% morbidity and 100% mortality of affected herds observed, the 2015 die-off left the largest saiga population, Betpak-Dala, with approximately 30,000 survivors based on post mortality census, highlighting the imminent extinction threats to this critically endangered species. The lack of pathological investigations during historical mass mortality events has limited our understanding of disease-related mortalities in saiga antelope. Generally, aetiological agents were isolated from dead saiga, but the disease course and a full necropsy were not performed nor present in the records. However, for the first time, a full pathology report was possible during 2015. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 Sánchez-Monge, F. Royal Veterinary College of London Fsanchez5@rvc.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2164-385X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Sánchez-Monge, F. Unaffiliated Fsanchez5@rvc.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2164-385X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Kock, R.A. Royal Veterinary College of London rkock@rvc.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6561-3209 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Species Distribution theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Kazakhstan Tengiz GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Saiga antelope otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Sánchez-Monge, F., Kock, R.A. (2018). Pathological findings in the mass mortality event of saiga antelope, May 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 textTable 100 English utf8 environment 2015-05-01 2015-05-31 65.45 67.49 49.74 51.8 Semi-colon delimited text file NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/30cbfba7-f9a1-47d5-abdb-f2741041e487.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Sixteen saiga carcasses were necropsied in Tengiz Oblast (thirteen adults and three new-borns), and eighteen carcasses in Turgai Oblast (twelve adults and six new-borns). Field necropsy procedures were followed according to: Munson, L., Necropsy of Wild Animals. University of California. 2006. Samples were fixed in formal saline and shipped and processed at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), UK. Samples from Turgai were processed at RVC and from Tengiz were processed initially at the Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems (RIBSP), Kazakhstan and re-processed at the RVC. Sample and slide preparation at the RVC is described in Martineau, H.M. Histopathology of Tissues from Saiga Antelope: Turgai. Pathology and Pathogen Biology Department, Royal Veterinary College of London, UK. Samples were analysed at the RVC and then sent to the Forest School of Medicine, NC, USA for review.