Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2023)

Short-Finned Pilot Whale Strandings Associated with Pilot Whale Morbillivirus, Brazil

  • Samira Costa-Silva,
  • Carlos Sacristán,
  • Rodrigo M. Soares,
  • Vitor L. Carvalho,
  • Pedro V. Castilho,
  • Marta J. Cremer,
  • Ana Carolina Ewbank,
  • Arícia Duarte-Benvenuto,
  • Thalita Faita,
  • Pedro E. Navas-Suárez,
  • Jenyffer V. Vieira,
  • Letícia G. Pereira,
  • Carolina F. Alves,
  • Gabriela C. Souza,
  • Giulia G. Lemos,
  • Natália Silvestre-Perez,
  • José L. Catão-Dias,
  • Lara B. Keid

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2901.221549
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 1
pp. 214 – 217

Abstract

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Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) causes illness and death in cetaceans worldwide; the CeMV strains circulating in the Southern Hemisphere are poorly known. We detected a pilot whale CeMV strain in 3 short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) stranded in Brazil during July–October 2020. Our results confirm this virus circulates in this species.

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