{"id":156378,"date":"2023-01-27T03:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-virus-discovered-in-whales-dolphins-across-pacific"},"modified":"2023-01-27T03:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:22:53","slug":"new-virus-discovered-in-whales-dolphins-across-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-virus-discovered-in-whales-dolphins-across-pacific","title":{"rendered":"New virus discovered in whales, dolphins across Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-virus-discovered-in-whales-dolphins-across-pacific.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A novel virus, potentially fatal to whales and dolphins, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi Health and Stranding Lab. Prior to its discovery in 10 whale and dolphin host species across the Pacific, the virus was found in only a single marine mammal worldwide, a Longman\u2019s beaked whale stranded on Maui in 2010. The findings are published in Frontiers in Marine Science.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of beaked whale circovirus (BWCV) in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/whales\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">whales<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dolphins<\/a> expands the knowledge of marine mammal species that can become infected with the disease. Circoviruses are DNA viruses that cause disease in birds, pigs and dogs, and in severe cases can become fatal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study found Cuvier\u2019s beaked whales tested positive for BWCV in Saipan and American Samoa, nearly 4,000 miles away from the first discovered case,\u201d said Kristi West, director of the UH Health and Stranding Lab. \u201cThe positive cases found outside of Hawai\u02bbi were surprising, and indicates that this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus<\/a> is spread across the Central and Western Pacific and may have a global presence in marine mammals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel virus, potentially fatal to whales and dolphins, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi Health and Stranding Lab. Prior to its discovery in 10 whale and dolphin host species across the Pacific, the virus was found in only a single marine mammal worldwide, a Longman\u2019s beaked whale stranded on Maui [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}