Spain warns of virus that threatens Mediterranean dolphins

AFP, August, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Experts at Spain's environment ministry have appealed for help abroad to track a potentially deadly virus that threatens a species of dolphins in the Mediterranean.

The morbillivirus, which causes measles in its human form, has been found in several striped dolphins washed up dead on beaches in Spain in recent weeks, said a ministry statement.

"According to analyses which were carried out, the virus identified is practically the same as the one that caused a ...