Virus kills over 1,000 bottlenose dolphins along U.S. east coast

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Virus kills over 1,000 bottlenose dolphins along U.S. east coast

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO (Reuters) - More than 1,000 migratory bottlenose dolphins have died from a measles-like virus along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in 2013 and the epidemic shows no sign of abating, a marine biologist said on Monday. "It is having a significant impact and that is something we're monitoring closely," said Erin Fougeres, a marine mammal biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). An estimated 39,206 bottlenose dolphins populated the eastern seaboard, to a depth of 25 feet, from New Jersey to Central Florida in 2010, according to the latest NOAA census. Scientists are trying to determine why the morbillivirus resurged this year.

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