
San Francisco Chronicle: Sea Lions Battling Deadly Disease
- Leptospirosis
Sea Lions Off Northern California Battling Deadly Disease
Published in the San Francisco Chronicle: October 17, 2018
Hundreds of California sea lions have been stricken by an often deadly bacterial infection and are washing ashore daily up and down the coast, raising fears among biologists that an already soaring death toll could continue to rise.
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