| mycobacterium avium-related epizootic in free-ranging lesser flamingos in kenya. | an epizootic in free-ranging lesser flamingos (phoeniconaias minor) in kenya resulted in more than 18,500 deaths from august through mid-november 1993. disease was concentrated along the shores of rift valley lakes bogoria and nakuru (kenya) and did not involve any of the other avian or mammalian species frequenting the lakes. coincidental to the outbreak was a bloom of algae on lake bogoria, toxins from which were first suspected to be causative. discrete necrotic and granulomatous lesions were ... | 1999 | 10231756 |