Near Pinedale, an outbreak of a rare respiratory disease is moving through the Sublette herd of pronghorn, a group of nearly 40,000 antelope. A few hundred of its members migrate north to Grand Teton National Park in the summer.
Mycoplasma bovis infections that cause serious cases of pneumonia have killed some 200 animals in the herd since mid-February.
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