Virus fear for British seals MarineBio Marine Life Directory

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27 July, 2002 - The discovery of two dead seals on a Lincolnshire beach has sparked fears of a fresh outbreak of a fatal virus in UK waters.

Some 18,000 seals in northern Europe died of the highly infectious phocine distemper virus (PDV) in 1988.

The virus returned to Denmark in May 2002 and has so far killed 2,000 seals in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Wildlife experts say it is only a matter of time before the disease return to British shores.

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