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Whales stranded along the NC coast in recent years have died from parasites, disease and most often, experts say, as a result of human interactions. Five whales have died along NC’s coast this year.
"The Whale beached between Scheveningen and Katwijk, with elegant sightseers", by Esaias van de Velde, c. 1617. Whales have beached throughout human history, with evidence of humans salvaging from stranded sperm whales in southern Spain during the Upper Magdalenian era some 14,000 years before the present. [2]
B. ceti has been found via PCR isolation in 4 out of 14 cetacean families but antibodies against the bacteria have been isolated in 7 families. [1] Within these families, B ceti has been cultured or found in Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoploden bidens), longfinned pilot whales (Globicephala melas), [4] northern minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius ...
Symptoms of infection are often a severe combination of pneumonia, encephalitis and damage to the immune system, which greatly impair the cetacean's ability to swim and stay afloat unassisted. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Since its discovery in 1987, CeMV has been responsible for numerous epizootics of mass mortality in cetacean populations. [ 3 ]
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A tragedy played out along Florida’s Gulf Coast during spring break as a stranded 44-foot whale slowly died while stuck in the surf. The endangered sperm whale was discovered around 8:30 a.m ...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – After a whale was stranded, and later died, in a South Kingstown salt pond this week, ... The minke whale event has been tied to disease and ship strikes, and the right whale ...
Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say. None of the stranded whales could be refloated and all either died ...