Did algal toxins cause monk seal mortality?

Mauro Hernández, Ian Robinson, Alex Aguilar, Luis Mariano González, Luis Felipe López-Jurado, María Isabel Reyero, Emiliano Cacho, José Franco, Victoria López-Rodas and Eduardo Costas
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Mauro Hernández: Laboratorio Forense de Vida Silvestre, P. Conde de los Gaitanes
Ian Robinson: Norfolk Wildlife Hospital, RSPCA
Alex Aguilar: Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona
Luis Mariano González: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
Luis Felipe López-Jurado: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
María Isabel Reyero: Centro Oceanografico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía
Emiliano Cacho: Community Reference Laboratory on Marine Biotoxins, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo
José Franco: Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Vigo
Victoria López-Rodas: Veterinary Faculty, Complutense University
Eduardo Costas: Veterinary Faculty, Complutense University

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6680, 28-29

Abstract: Abstract The population of Mediterranean monk seals off the coast of the western Sahara has recently suffered a sudden mortality. A morbillivirus was isolated post-mortem from the tissues of three seals1, and it has been proposed that the virus was the agent responsible. This conclusion is called into question by epidemiological, clinical, pathological and toxicological considerations. We suggest here that intoxication by algal toxins is a more likely cause of the deaths.

Date: 1998
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