Delfino died in Ostia. "Don't touch it"
2019-08-18T13:17:30.266Z
A dead dolphin was found on a cliff of the Roman coast, between the port of Ostia and Fiumara Grande. The news was reported by the non-profit organization Oceanomare Delphis, which speaks of a "suspected case of a morbillivirus" and warns: "It is important that the animal is not touched or approached until the experts arrive". The association that takes care of the project 'Delfini Capitolini' on Facebook writes on Facebook: "Today is the sad news of a beached dolphin in Ostia. The report arrived thanks to the collaboration established with the X Municipality of Rome, taking note of the good functioning of the network effect generated by the reporting of a citizen ". The concern of the Oceanomare Delphis team is "that the stranded individual is one of the" Capitoline Dolphins ", the name of the cetacean research and monitoring project of the Roman coast, between Ostia, Fiumicino and Torvaianica conducted since 2011 by Odo". The zooprophylactic institutes of Lazio and Tuscany will intervene to understand the causes of death. The non-profit organization points out: "Considering that in recent months there have been numerous strandings of dolphins in the northern Tyrrhenian (in Tuscany they have reached 41 stretches of dolphins, including dolphins and bottlenose dolphins), that the main suspect of causes of death is the morbillivirus (still to be ascertained with certainty), a cause of cetacean epidemics in the 1990s, and that animals can be carriers of pathogens transmissible to humans, it is important that the animal is not touched or approached until the experts arrive ". Pratesi: nature recovers from epidemics The news of the death of yet another dolphin in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Ostia - already 48 cases in 2019, 49 with that of today - it is not surprising Fulco Pratesi, environmental historian and honorary president of the WWF. "The Morbillivirus, which affects the cetaceans and also other mammals, could also be the cause of death in this case - the WWF founder interviewed by the Agi points out. He adds:" But we must also know how to accept that there are these waves of epidemics from which nature fortunately recovers ". The last four animals died and analyzed by the experimental zooprophylactic Institute of Lazio and Tuscany in its operative unit, all found on the Tuscan coasts in June and July 2019, for example highlighted" a important positivity for the cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) ", as reported in the report after the autopsy. Moreover, the finding of Morbillivirus in beached marine mammals in Tuscany is not new; already in 2013 and again in 2016 we witnessed to important measles epidemics which however mainly affected the Stenella striata species. "On the other hand - Pratesi observes - this news tells us c he can also be that there are more dolphins than in the past ". The founder of the WWF dedicated a whole life to the protection and protection of dolphins that were once hunted to make Musciame, a delicacy appreciated above all in Genoa and in other coastal countries. "It was a tremendous massacre of dolphins - he recalls - whose meat was also sold at great price, a bit like caviar or bottarga", explains the veteran of Italian environmentalists, who adds: "But today, both dolphins and of whales if they start to see more than once, it was once a coincidence, now they arrive under the coast, near the beaches.It should be remembered that up to twenty years ago, before we were fighting as WWFs to protect the dolphins, many killed them ".
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18 August 2019A dead dolphin was found on a cliff of the Roman coast, between the port of Ostia and Fiumara Grande. The news was reported by the non-profit organization Oceanomare Delphis, which speaks of a "suspected case of a morbillivirus" and warns: "It is important that the animal is not touched or approached until the experts arrive". The association that takes care of the project 'Delfini Capitolini' on Facebook writes on Facebook: "Today is the sad news of a beached dolphin in Ostia. The report arrived thanks to the collaboration established with the X Municipality of Rome, taking note of the good functioning of the network effect generated by the reporting of a citizen ". The concern of the Oceanomare Delphis team is "that the stranded individual is one of the" Capitoline Dolphins ", the name of the cetacean research and monitoring project of the Roman coast, between Ostia, Fiumicino and Torvaianica conducted since 2011 by Odo". The zooprophylactic institutes of Lazio and Tuscany will intervene to understand the causes of death. The non-profit organization points out: "Considering that in recent months there have been numerous strandings of dolphins in the northern Tyrrhenian (in Tuscany they have reached 41 stretches of dolphins, including dolphins and bottlenose dolphins), that the main suspect of causes of death is the morbillivirus (still to be ascertained with certainty), a cause of cetacean epidemics in the 1990s, and that animals can be carriers of pathogens transmissible to humans, it is important that the animal is not touched or approached until the experts arrive ". Pratesi: nature recovers from epidemics The news of the death of yet another dolphin in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Ostia - already 48 cases in 2019, 49 with that of today - it is not surprising Fulco Pratesi, environmental historian and honorary president of the WWF. "The Morbillivirus, which affects the cetaceans and also other mammals, could also be the cause of death in this case - the WWF founder interviewed by the Agi points out. He adds:" But we must also know how to accept that there are these waves of epidemics from which nature fortunately recovers ". The last four animals died and analyzed by the experimental zooprophylactic Institute of Lazio and Tuscany in its operative unit, all found on the Tuscan coasts in June and July 2019, for example highlighted" a important positivity for the cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) ", as reported in the report after the autopsy. Moreover, the finding of Morbillivirus in beached marine mammals in Tuscany is not new; already in 2013 and again in 2016 we witnessed to important measles epidemics which however mainly affected the Stenella striata species. "On the other hand - Pratesi observes - this news tells us that it may also be that there are more dolphins than in the past". The founder of the WWF dedicated a whole life to the protection and protection of dolphins that were once hunted to make Musciame, a delicacy appreciated above all in Genoa and in other coastal countries. "It was a tremendous massacre of dolphins - he recalls - whose meat was also sold at great price, a bit like caviar or bottarga", explains the veteran of Italian environmentalists, who adds: "But today, both dolphins and of whales if they start to see more than once, it was once a coincidence, now they arrive under the coast, near the beaches.It should be remembered that up to twenty years ago, before we were fighting as WWFs to protect the dolphins, many killed them ".
