Dead seals raise fear of epidemic

Thursday 12 July 2007

Officials at the Pieterburen seal rescue centre say they are becoming increasingly concerned that the distemper virus which has killed tens of seals on the Swedish and Danish coast may soon reach the Netherlands. Epidemics in 1988 and 2002 wiped out over half of the Wadden Sea seals.

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