H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals

US - Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published yesterday (May 15) in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine mammal.
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