Shrinking Arctic ice exposes seals, sea lions, otters to deadly virus
As climate change worsens, scientists fear the virus—once found only in European waters—could spread to the U.S. West Coast. 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 …
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