September 12, Walrus (600+? )
"Walruses that have hauled out by the thousands at Point Lay in Northwest Alaska during recent summers -- an event driven by climate change -- are also turning up with bizarre, festering sores. Scientists estimate perhaps 600 are infected. Instead of wounds on their faces and rear flippers, red abscesses pepper the animals' entire bodies. But apparently only a few have perished."
Alaska Dispatch
(https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/walruses-suffer-similar-disease-afflicting-alaska-ringed-seals/2011/10/14/)
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