Climate Crisis Is Causing a Deadly Virus to Spread Amongst Marine Mammals

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By Jordan DavidsonNov 8, 2019, 1:14 pm194 pts
A lethal virus that killed tens of thousands of harbor seals in the northern Atlantic in 2002 suddenly spread to sea lions, seals and otters in the northern Pacific Ocean two years later, confusing scientists, as NBC News reported. How could the pathogen that causes a measles-like disease in marine mammals that…

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