Disease kills 7 wallabies at Virginia Zoo since Feb. 2014

That's the Associated Press headline. Here's the original article:

Most of Virginia Zoo's wallabies have died

By Tim Eberly
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tim.eberly@pilotonline.com
The Virginian-Pilot
© January 27, 2015
NORFOLK

You won't find the wallabies at the Virginia Zoo's Australia exhibit anytime soon. ... Most have died and the rest have been quarantined because of a rash of deaths over the past 11 months, zoo officials confirmed Monday.

Since February, seven wallabies have died from toxoplasmosis, or "toxo," which is a disease caused by a parasite that is often carried through cat feces.

A number of baby wallabies have died, too, and it's possible that some of them also died from toxo, the zoo's veterinarian said.

Greg Bockheim, the zoo's executive director, would not say Monday how many wallaby offspring have died. The zoo plans to provide that information later in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, he said.