@article {2601,
	title = {The striped dolphin epizootic in the Mediterranean Sea},
	journal = {Ambio},
	volume = {22},
	number = {8},
	year = {1993},
	pages = {524-528, 54 ref.},
	abstract = {<p class="rtejustify">From 1990 to 1992, an epizootic produced a massive die-off of striped dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea. The event\&nbsp;started in mid-Spain but extended, through three apparently\&nbsp;interconnected outbreaks, to finally coverthe whole western\&nbsp;Mediterranean and the Tyrrhenian and Aegean Seas.\&nbsp;Although more than 1000 carcasses of striped dolphins\&nbsp;were collected during the event, the total toll remains\&nbsp;unknown because of fragmentary coverage of rescue\&nbsp;networks and because many carcasses never reached the\&nbsp;shore. The primary cause of the episode was identified as\&nbsp;an infection by a morbillivirus, the origin of which could not\&nbsp;be ascertained. The dolphins affected were found to carry\&nbsp;concentrations of pollutants higher than normal for the\&nbsp;general population. This difference could not be explained\&nbsp;by variation in nutritive condition or by sex or age composition.\&nbsp;The dolphins that died at the beginning of the outbreak were\&nbsp;in abnormally poor nutritional condition, and had increased\&nbsp;prevalence of ectoparasites and epizoits. This suggested\&nbsp;that these dolphins had recently undergone a period of\&nbsp;restricted mobility, during which the ectoparasites had found\&nbsp;attachment easier than under normal conditions. Abnormal\&nbsp;weatherconditions, leading to depressed marine productivity,\&nbsp;may have been the cause of some of these anomalies.</p>
},
	keywords = {death, disease, epizootic, infection, mass, Mediterranean, morbillivirus, mortality, pollution, virus, ασθένεια, επιζωοτική, θάλασσα, θάνατος, θνησιμότητα, ιός, λοίμωξη, μάζα, Μεσόγειο, ρύπανση},
	url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/4314142?seq=1$\#$metadata_info_tab_contents},
	author = {Aguilar, A. and Raga, J.}
}
