How do you give a wild marine mammal a shot? Very carefully. Sneaking up on Hawaiian monk seals on beaches and in tide pools, biologists from the NOAA Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program are vaccinating a select group of seals to protect them from a virus that may one day reach Hawaii. Although to date morbillivirus has not been found in seals on Oahu, there's a risk that it may arrive. Because the endangered seals—with a population of only about 1,200 to 1,300—have no immunity to the virus, an outbreak could devastate the species. Morbillivirus, which causes measles in humans, has been implicated in a mass die-off of Mediterranean monk seals.
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