Volume 2, Number 3—July 1996
Dispatch
Two Morbilliviruses Implicated in Bottlenose Dolphin Epizootics
Table 2
Percentage of DM-V and PMV-infected animals by location
Stranding location | No. dolphins | No. DMV infected (%) | No. PMV infected (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Atlantic, New Jersey | 8 | 7 (70)a | 3 (30)a |
Atlantic, Virginia | 10 | 7 (58)a | 5 (42)a |
Atlantic, Florida | 7 | 2 (29) | 5 (71) |
Gulf of Mexico, Texas | 7 | 0 | 7 (100) |
a Including the four cases of simultaneous DMV and PMV infection.