[MARINE_BIOLOGY_INTERNATIONAL] DIE-OFF, SEAL - NETHERLANDS: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

DIE-OFF, SEAL - NETHERLANDS: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Date: Tue 3 Jul 2012
Source: The Telegraaf [In Dutch, machine transl.; edited] <http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/12479309/__Zeehonden_sterven_bij_bosjes__.html>

This year there are more dead seals than usual in Grevelingen.

This year already 28 dead gray seals were found, when 5 to 10 is the expected number. "The seals look terrible. It could be anything."

Also many seals died in Finland this year.

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[Not enough information to posit a hypothetical cause. More data on this episode is requested. The interactive HealthMap/ProMED map for the affected adea is available at: < http://healthmap.org/r/2JmC>. - Mod.PMB]

[see also:
Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (AK): seal 20120311.1066289
2011
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Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (05): (AK) seals 20111221.3650 Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (04): (AK) seal, walrus, RFI
20111202.3518
Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (03): (AK) seal, walrus 20111017.3108 Die-off, harbor seals - USA (02): New England, influenza
20111215.3607
Die-off, harbor seals - USA: northeast, influenza susp. 20111106.3301 Die-off, seal - USA: New England, RFI 20111027.3203 Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (02): (AK) seal, RFI 20111014.3074 Die-off, marine wildlife - USA: (NH) RFI 20111012.3052 Q fever - USA (02): (AK) seals 20110911.2771
2007
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Die-off, marine wildlife - USA (03): (AK) seal, walrus 20070518.1580 Die-off, seals - Kazakhstan (Mangistauskaya): RFI 20070418.1280
2003
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Phocine distemper virus, seals - UK 20030112.0099] .................................................sb/pmb/ejp/lm/ll
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