Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Persistent Infection in Harbor Seals 12-13 Years after Phocine Distemper Virus Epizootics in 1988 and 2002, North Sea.
- Journal:
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Year:
- 2025
- Authors:
- van de Bildt, Marco W G et al.
- Species:
- dog
Abstract
Phocine distemper virus caused epizootics of fatal pneumonia in North Sea harbor seals in 1988 and 2002. Two seals that stranded years later were infected with defective phocine distemper virus variants that caused severe encephalomyelitis. Old seal encephalitis resembled subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in humans and old dog encephalitis in canines.
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