Emerging infectious diseases comprise a substantial fraction of important human infections, with potentially devastating global health and economic impacts. A 2008 paper in Nature described the ...

Scientists are concerned about a virus they've recently identified in Fraser's dolphins. Though the disease has already been infecting these animals for a few years, researchers are sounding the alarm ...

Bottlenose dolphins have been dying from Morbillivirus at alarming rates in recent decades. Infected and sick animals suffer a combination of symptoms similar to pneumonia, encephalitis, and a damaged ...

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin deaths in WA have been linked to a new variant of cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV)—a virus related to the human measles and canine distemper viruses, according to research ...

Biologists in Hawaii have detected a previously unknown strain of cetacean morbillivirus, a pathogen that can cause deadly infections in marine mammals across the globe. The virus was detected in a ...

A viral outbreak that's killing bottlenose dolphins is moving down the U.S. East Coast as the animals migrate south for the winter. Between July 1 and November 3, at least 753 animals have died. The ...

Officials confirmed Tuesday that morbillivirus, a virus similar to measles, is the culprit in the death of more than 300 dolphins along the East Coast in recent weeks. It is the same virus that killed ...