Mass Die-Off of Caspian Seals Caused by Canine Distemper Virus

	*Dispatch* Mass Die-Off of Caspian Seals Caused by Canine Distemper Virus Seamus Kennedy,* Thijs Kuiken,† Paul D. Jepson,‡ Robert Deaville,‡ Morag Forsyth,§ Tom Barrett,§ Marco W.G. van de Bildt,† Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus,† Tariel Eybatov,¶ Callan Duck,# Aidyn Kydyrmanov,** Igor Mitrofanov,†† Susan Wilson‡‡ Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; †Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center, Pieterburen, The Netherlands; ‡Institute of Zoology, Regents Park, London, UK; §Institute of Animal Health, Pirbright, Surrey, UK; ¶Geological Institute of the Azerbaijan Republic Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan; #Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK; *Laboratory of Virus Ecology, Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; ††Akademgorodok, Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; ‡‡Caspian Environment Programme Ecotoxicology Project, Portaferry, Northern Ireland, UK

	Back to article Figure 1. Map of the Caspian Sea region. Seal samples were collected from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and the Apsheron peninsula, Azerbaijan.

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