Scientists are trying to understand how a highly contagious and lethal disease called cetacean morbillivirus related to measles in humans and first detected in Virginia and Maryland waters can spread rapidly among dolphins along the Atlantic Coast, as it did from 2013 to 2015.
REEDVILLE, Va. — Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water’s surface to breathe — first exhaling, then inhaling — before slipping back under the waves of the Chesapeake Bay.