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Article: Seeking Cause of Mysterious Whale Disease, Medical Doctors and Marine Mammal Scientists Join Forces.
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- June 23, 2003
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Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
FT. PIERCE, Fla., June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- On June 25, scientists will meet at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution to study and discuss a deadly heart disease affecting pygmy and dwarf sperm whale populations. The workshop will bring together human and marine mammal researchers in an effort to better understand causes of the heart defect using medical techniques normally applied to humans.
Dr. Gregory Bossart, director of the Harbor Branch Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Division, who has studied both clinical marine mammal medicine and pathology and human pathology, will lead the workshop. ...