With more and more seals tested for diseases as a result of this, experts are concerned about the rise of rabies within the species. As well as the uptick in aggressive behavior reported by ...
“Although the behaviour looked ‘rabid’, our best scientific knowledge was that seals don’t get rabies,” says Dr Tess Gridley, founding director of Sea Search, an NGO specialising in ...
It comes after a rare outbreak of rabies was declared in seals in Cape Town in July. Eleven of the animals tested positive for the deadly bug, after seals with "cherry-red, evil eyes" were seen ...
Cape fur seals with rabies have infected at least seven people in South Africa and vaccinations will be trialed to try to contain what is the first documented outbreak of the disease in a marine ...
Read full article: Scientists in South Africa say they have identified the first known outbreak of rabiesin seals Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies.
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