Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Dispatch
Phocine Distemper Outbreak, the Netherlands, 2002
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![Spatial and temporal distribution of seal strandings in the Netherlands during the 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemic. A) Spatial distribution of seal strandings and proportion of seals necropsied at each location. The diameter of each pie chart corresponds to the number of seals stranded at a particular location. The names of the Wadden Sea islands have been abbreviated (Tx, Texel; V, Vlieland; Ts, Terschelling; A, Ameland; S, Schiermonnikoog; R, Rottumeroog and Rottumerplaat). B) Weekly str](/eid/images/05-0596-F1.gif)
Figure 1. Spatial and temporal distribution of seal strandings in the Netherlands during the 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemic. A) Spatial distribution of seal strandings and proportion of seals necropsied at each location. The diameter of each pie chart corresponds to the number of seals stranded at a particular location. The names of the Wadden Sea islands have been abbreviated (Tx, Texel; V, Vlieland; Ts, Terschelling; A, Ameland; S, Schiermonnikoog; R, Rottumeroog and Rottumerplaat). B) Weekly stranding rate of all stranded harbor seals and effect of age category on weekly stranding rate.
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