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Organochlorine levels in common seals (Phoca vitulina) that were victims and survivors of the 1988 phocine distemper epizootic. Phocine distemper virus (PDV) infection (1-3) was considered responsible for the deaths of [approximately equal to] 18,000 seals in Europe in the first recorded outbreak in 1988 (4), and of [approximately equal to] 22,000 seals in the second outbreak in 2002 (5,6). The work constitutes the "final proof" that either CDV or the closely related phocine distemper virus caused the deaths of thousands of seals in the North and Baltic seas in an epidemic that began last April (SN: 9/3/88, p. |
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