A morbillivirus causing mass mortality in seals.

• Published in: Vaccine
• Main Author: Osterhaus, A.D.M.E. (Albert)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: *Pinnipedia; *Seals; 0 (Antibodies; Viral); Animals; Antibodies; Viral/analysis; Disease Outbreaks/*veterinary; Distemper Virus; Canine/immunology; Distemper/*epidemiology/etiology; Kattegat; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://repub.eur.nl/pub/3378; https://doi.org/10.1016/0264-410X(89)90265-X

During an outbreak of a serious apparently infectious disease among harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which started in the Kattegat area in April 1988 and rapidly spread to the North sea, the Wadden sea and the Baltic sea, greater than 17,000 animals died within a period of eight months. In August 198...