As stated in previous post, now we are concentrating on making the authorities aware of the health and safey aspects of keeping two large dolphins in a very small enclosed pool.
We are not sure if this subject has been considered.
We have been unable to see any of the bulding plans, therefore we do not know how the water purity is going to be maintained.How is it going to be purified, filtered, supplied, disposed of, and chlorinated, also will there be professionals who will be sampling and testing, where are the tests samples going to be sent,and are the dolphns free of any infectious pathogens,
The following lists make interesting reading, they contain possible risks that could be passed from dolphins to humans and from humans to dolphins and more besides.
also the final document to click onto, demonstrates that dolphins are not friendly flipper animals, but can be potentially dangerous.
The two dolphins will certainly be under great stress from their new cramped, noisy, hot, enviromentfilled with tourists.
Who after reading this report, will not have second thoughts.
Any one for a dip!!!Viral diseases
"Research in America found that exposure to marine mammals can involve a health risk to people working with the animals and it can also threaten the health of the public. Diseases contracted from marine mammals are difficult to treat and diagnose, as they may be overlooked or even ignored by physicians who are not aware of the risks or range of potential infectious diseases". Caliciviruses have been isolated from bottlenose dolphins. The marine caliciviruses appear to be serotypes of vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV, Vesicular Exanthema of Swine
Herpes Virus -
Herpesvirus-like lesions occur in a wide variety of cetaceans.
Distemper virusA delphinoid distemper virus (cetacean morbillivirus [CMV]), closely related to rinderpest ( Rinderpest: Introduction) and peste des petits ruminants ( Peste Des Petits Ruminants: Introduction), has been implicated in the deaths of harbor porpoises and common dolphins off the coast of the UK, striped dolphins in the Mediterranean, and bottlenose dolphins in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
The Pox Virus
Morbillivirus:A delphinoid distemper virus (cetacean morbillivirus [CMV]), closely related to rinderpest (Rinderpest: Introduction) and peste des petits ruminants ( Peste Des Petits Ruminants: Introduction), has been implicated in the deaths common dolphins off the coast of the UK, striped dolphins in the Mediterranean, and bottlenose dolphins in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Influenza - Infection is probably common.Even well-fed captive animals become weak, incoordinated, and dyspneic. Swollen necks due to fascial trapping of air escaping through the thoracic inlet is reported. Occasionally, white or bloody nasal discharge will be evident.
Tuberculosis Weils Disease & LeptospirosisTuberculosis and other bacterial diseases such as Weils Disease a severe form of Leptospirosis characterised by jaundice, circulatory collapse and tendency to haemorrhage.
Pneumonia - The chief cause of death in captive marine mammals is believed to be pneumonia. Clinical signs include lethargy, anorexia, severe halitosis, dyspnea, pyrexia, and marked leukocytosis. The disease can progress rapidly.
Miscellaneous Bacterial Diseases: Marine mammals are probably susceptible to the entire range of pathogenic bacteria.
Salmonella
E.coli
Listeria
Pasteurella multocida has caused several outbreaks of hemorrhagic enteritis with depression and abdominal distress leading to acute death in dolphins..
In dolphins, Mannheimia (Pasteurella) haemolytica has been incriminated in hemorrhagic tracheitis. Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei has caused serious fatal outbreaks of disease in various marine mammals in captivity in the Far East.
Staphylococcal septicemia has caused the death of a dolphin with osteomyelitis of the spine (pyogenic spondylitis). Another case of intradiskal osteomyelitis, due to Staphylococcus aureus
Sources: The above information was taken from the Merck Veterinary Manual
Viral diseases
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/170811.htm Bacterial diseases
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/170808.htmThere is more information on the impact on human health in Chapter 5 page 29 of the Attached Booklet
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/MarMamCptvtyBklt.pdf Male Dophin kills man http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf101/sf101b07.htm
