The world’s first outbreak of rabies in marine mammals has been discovered in South Africa’s Cape fur seals, and the disease is now considered to be endemic in the population - Tommy Trenchard ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases Of South Africa (NICD) has issued an alert regarding rising rabies cases. Rabies in seals has previously been uncommon, however, new reports from ...

They include the Guadalupe fur seal of Baja California, the brown fur seal of southern Africa and Australia, and the South American fur seal. Fur seals have sharp eyesight and keen hearing.

A second Argentine Navy vessel remains retained in Africa, although this time because of mechanical problems. So far this month the Argentine navy has suffered the ‘loss’ of three of its units ...