Morbillivirus disease and characteristics of its epizootics (Review)
Morbillivirus disease of cetaceans is widely distributed all over the world last 10 - 15 years. It affects bottle-nosed dolphins, porpoises and other sea mammals of dolphin family. In this report the actality of the problem, general characteristics of the disease and its pathological agent, historical and geographical analysis of cetacean morbillivirus disease distribution, the infection epizootological characteristics, clinical manifestations, pathologo-morphological changes and the disease diagnostics data are presented.