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Seal deaths by bird flu?
Transnational research required on the disease outbreak
Since the beginning of October 2014, weakened or dead seal on the beaches of the German and Danish North Sea coast increasingly found, including over 350 dead animals on the North Frisian Islands and Heligoland.
On 10/20/14 the School of Veterinary Medicine published their findings of the dissected animals. The experts were able to prove a flu virus, its type must be defined more precisely. Their Danish colleagues identified in dead seals that were found in the Kattegat, the first time the bird flu virus H10N7. A connection with the dead seals in the North Sea is not excluded. When the influenza viruses also were not previously known in seals, the existence of these seals in the Wadden Sea is not threatened by the current course of the disease.
Nevertheless, the re-seal death raises questions. "It is puzzling why the first diseased animals were found as in the two great distemper epidemics near the Danish island of Anholt in the Baltic," says marine mammal expert Silvia Gaus of the Wadden Sea Conservation Station. Starting from the small Baltic population of harbor seals, the disease spread from that time in the North Sea and the distemper epidemic fell victim to over 20,000 animals. Many possible causes of the epidemic were discussed at that time. The real causes could never be truly understood.
More: http://www.schutzstation-wattenmeer....h-vogelgrippe/
Wattenmeer or Waddensea is the name for a coastal area stretching from Denmark via Germany to the Netherlands.
H10N7 was found in a seal in an other area with recorded seal deaths: Kattegat
Seal deaths by bird flu?
Transnational research required on the disease outbreak
Since the beginning of October 2014, weakened or dead seal on the beaches of the German and Danish North Sea coast increasingly found, including over 350 dead animals on the North Frisian Islands and Heligoland.
On 10/20/14 the School of Veterinary Medicine published their findings of the dissected animals. The experts were able to prove a flu virus, its type must be defined more precisely. Their Danish colleagues identified in dead seals that were found in the Kattegat, the first time the bird flu virus H10N7. A connection with the dead seals in the North Sea is not excluded. When the influenza viruses also were not previously known in seals, the existence of these seals in the Wadden Sea is not threatened by the current course of the disease.
Nevertheless, the re-seal death raises questions. "It is puzzling why the first diseased animals were found as in the two great distemper epidemics near the Danish island of Anholt in the Baltic," says marine mammal expert Silvia Gaus of the Wadden Sea Conservation Station. Starting from the small Baltic population of harbor seals, the disease spread from that time in the North Sea and the distemper epidemic fell victim to over 20,000 animals. Many possible causes of the epidemic were discussed at that time. The real causes could never be truly understood.
More: http://www.schutzstation-wattenmeer....h-vogelgrippe/
Wattenmeer or Waddensea is the name for a coastal area stretching from Denmark via Germany to the Netherlands.
H10N7 was found in a seal in an other area with recorded seal deaths: Kattegat
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