Spain Warns Of Virus Threatening Dolphins
August 30, 2007 @ 12:21 PM (EST)
Source: Reuters.com
Spain has asked authorities around the Mediterranean and adjoining seas for help in monitoring an infection which threatens a protected species of dolphin, warning it may become an epidemic.
"The virus identified is practically the same one which provoked a massive epidemic in the 1990s and could affect other species of the whale family, such as pilot whales,"the Environment Ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Morbillivirus, a potentially fatal infection which causes measles in its human form, was found in dead striped dolphins -- a protected species -- washed up on beaches in Spain, it said...
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