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7 November 2019 / National Geographic / Sarah Gibbens
Background

Deadly virus spreads among marine mammals as Arctic ice melts

Alaska, United States

When sea otters in Alaska were diagnosed with phocine distemper virus (PDV) in 2004, scientists were confused. The pathogen in the Morbillivirus genus that contains viruses like measles had then only been found in Europe and on the eastern coast of North America.


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