The
RSPCA has said an
outbreak of distemper which
killed 100s of seals has come to an end.
About
1,500 seals in the Wash have died, estimated to be
about half the population on the East Coast of England.
Pollution it thought to have
caused problems by weakening the seals' immune systems and making them more vulnerable to the
phocine distemper virus...
See the St. Andrew's University
Sea Mammal Research Unit,
Wadden Sea Secretariat - Seal Deaths 2002 +
Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre websites for more information.