Climate crisis causes deadly virus to spread among marine mammals

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By Karen Graham     18 hours ago in Science

A lethal virus that killed tens of thousands of harbor seals in the northern Atlantic in 2002 suddenly spread to sea lions, seals and otters in the northern Pacific Ocean two years later, confounding scientists - until now.
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