A review of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals

• Main Authors: Hall, Ailsa Jane, Dietz, R, Reijnders, P J H, Teilmann, J, Harding, K, Hall, A J, Brasseur, S M J M, Siebert, U, Goodman, S J, Jepson, P D, Dau Rasmussen, T, Thompson, P M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: epizootic; harbour seal; mass mortality; phocine distemper virus; MORBILLIVIRUS INFECTION; HALICHOERUS-GRYPUS; MARINE MAMMALS; GREY SEALS; ORGANOCHLORINE CONTAMINANTS; POPULATION-DYNAMICS; IMMUNE-RESPONSES; WESTERN ATLANTIC; FLAME RETARDANTS; Arctic; Danish Island; Kattegat; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/a-review-of-the-1988-and-2002-phocine-distemper-virus-epidemics-in-european-harbour-seals(ea9cb932-d1ee-48d3-80e4-45172d950fee).html; http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/dao/v68/n2/

We present new and revised data for the phocine distemper virus (PDV) epidemics that resulted in the deaths of more than 23 000 harbour seals Phoca vitulina in 1988 and 30 000 in 2002. On both occasions the epidemics started at the Danish island of Anholt in central Kattegat, and subsequently spread...