Word: osterhaus
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Last week Dutch Virologist Albert Osterhaus announced he had located the cause: the same virus that produces distemper in dogs. Osterhaus believes the seals contracted the virus after contact with canines and spread it to one another by coughing. Pollution may also have contributed by lowering the animals' immunological defenses...