A highly contagious respiratory virus has killed thousands of dolphins on the East Coast. And because orcas are very social animals, researchers are warning they're especially vulnerable to an outbreak.KUOW
Some Northwest residents don’t do social distancing well, which leaves them vulnerable to an outbreak of a highly contagious respiratory virus.That respiratory pathogen, closely related to the morbilliviruses that cause measles and canine distemper, has killed thousands of dolphins on the East Coast but has not been spotted in the Northwest yet.
The cetacean morbillivirus has been found in California waters and is known to jump from marine mammal to marine mammal.SARS-CoV-2 is the virus behind the world’s Covid-19 pandemic. “It has such a high potential to spread in the population and cause mortality,” biologist Michael Weiss with San Juan Island's Center for Whale Research said of the morbillivirus. “So it's something we're quite worried about.”
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