More than half of the tigers that Thai authorities confiscated in 2016 from an infamous Tiger Temple tourist attraction have died from a viral disease because their immune systems were weakened by inbreeding, media reports say.

据媒体报道，泰国当局在2016年从一个臭名昭著的老虎庙旅游景点没收的老虎中，有一半以上死于病毒性疾病，因为它们的免疫系统因近亲繁殖而减弱。

The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok was a tourist destination where visitors took selfies with tigers and bottle-fed cubs until authorities removed its nearly 150 tigers in 2016 in response to global pressure over wildlife trafficking.

这座位于曼谷西部的佛教寺庙曾是一个旅游景点，游客们在这里与老虎和用奶瓶喂养的幼崽自拍，直到2016年，为了应对全球对野生动物走私的压力，当局将其近150只老虎移走。

The confiscated animals were taken to two state-run sanctuaries but it soon became apparent they were susceptible to canine distemper virus, said a senior official from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.

国家公园、野生动物和植物保护部门的一位高级官员说，这些被没收的动物被送往两个国家保护区，但很快就发现它们很容易感染犬瘟热病毒。

"When we took the tigers in, we noted that they had no immune system due to inbreeding," the department's deputy director-general, Prakit Vongsrivattanakul, told the state-owned broadcaster MCOT on the weekend.

“我们收养老虎时注意到，由于近亲繁殖，它们没有免疫系统。”该部门的副主任普拉基特·冯斯里瓦塔纳库尔(Prakit Vongsrivattanakul)上周末对国有广播公司MCOT表示。

Prakit did not give a figure for the number of tigers that had died but public service broadcaster Thai PBS reported that the toll was 86 of the 147 rescued animals.

普拉基特没有给出老虎死亡的具体数字，但泰国公共广播电台报道，在147只获救的老虎中，死亡数量为86只。