Peru is investigating the mystery of the thousands of Pelican and Dolphin deaths along the Peruvian Coast line. According to PRI's The World, Stefan Austermuhle, a marine biologist with Mundo Azul shares with us how in recent months the deaths of Dolphins may connect with the recent Pelican deaths. Austermuble suggests that the morbillivirus outbreak epidemic (belongs to the same group as the measles virus in humans) caused the an estimate of 3,500 dolphin deaths. Currently there is no scientific information that may prove the morbillivirus switched to birds in other words this could be completely two different viruses. However, as we’ve seen through history viruses have the capacity of switching hosts from mammals to humans or vice versa. Peruvian’s have been eating dolphins for some time (its quite common); studies have shown that dolphins who die from this particular virus are the ones highly contaminated. In essence, if people are currently indulging themselves with dolphins, these threats can become a wide spread health risk.
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