GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The case of a Florida bottlenose dolphin discovered with extremely pathogenic avian influenza virus, or HPAI — a discovery made by College of Florida researchers in collaboration with a number of companies and one of many first reviews of a continuously rising record of mammals affected by this virus — has been revealed in Communications Biology.
The report paperwork the invention in 2022, the primary discovering of HPAI in a cetacean in North America, from the preliminary response by UF’s Marine Animal Rescue crew to a report of a distressed dolphin in Dixie County, Fla., to the next identification of the. . .