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Northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus, NFS) are a vulnerable species broadly distributed throughout the north Pacific. Although commercial hunting stopped in 1984, the population has continued to decline for unknown reasons. The goal of this scoping review was to synthesize and review 50 years of literature relevant to the health of NFS to inform...
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... percent of the disease publications focused on toxins or contaminants. Overwhelmingly, these publications report contaminant levels in a variety of tissue or secretory products, but are devoid of any association with individual or population health or disease information ( Table 1). There were two reports on algal toxins, most notably a case series of stranded, multiple age class NFSs in California that characterized the clinical and post-mortem disease in NFS with domoic acid poisoning, including central nervous system signs and pathology of the nervous and cardiac systems consistent with disease in other species [49]. ...Context 2
... percent of the disease publications focused on toxins or contaminants. Overwhelmingly, these publications report contaminant levels in a variety of tissue or secretory products, but are devoid of any association with individual or population health or disease information ( Table 1). There were two reports on algal toxins, most notably a case series of stranded, multiple age class NFSs in California that characterized the clinical and post-mortem disease in NFS with domoic acid poisoning, including central nervous system signs and pathology of the nervous and cardiac systems consistent with disease in other species [49]. ...