 Thousands of seals succumbed to the virus PDV |
Volunteers at a seal hospital are concerned that harbour seals are facing another health problem following last year's outbreak of Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV). They say seal pups are being aborted off the Norfolk coast.
Volunteers at the Winterton Marine Seal Hospital in Norfolk have this year found three prematurely aborted harbour seal pups on Scroby Sands.
Over the past three years volunteers from the hospital have found 13 prematurely aborted pups.
They fear many more may not have been recorded.
More than half of the common seal population of about 4,000 in the Wash at Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and on the north Norfolk coast, died when the PDV hit in August last year.
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