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- From Dr Akira Goto Source: Kyodo News on the web, 29
Dec 2003 [edited] http://home.kyodo.co.jp/photo/photo.jsp?news=20031229212906&word=all
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- Group warns of spread of tumors among sea turtles in
Japan
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- Members of the Osaka-based Sea Turtle Association of
Japan warned on 29 Dec 2003 that a serious tumor-causing illness, called
fibropapilloma, is apparently spreading among the turtles, with 3 cases
found in Okinawa, Shizuoka, and Kochi prefectures since last summer. File
photo shows a sea turtle in the sea near the Ogasawara islands, south of
Tokyo.
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- From Dr Akira Goto Source: The Japan Times website, 30
Dec 2003 [edited] http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20031230a8.htm
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- Tumor-causing illness imperils turtles
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- Members of a Japan-based group working to protect sea
turtles warned Monday that a serious tumor-causing illness is apparently
spreading among the reptiles, with 3 cases having been identified in Japan
since last summer.
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- The cases were found in Okinawa, Shizuoka and Kochi prefectures.
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- The illness, fibropapilloma, can be fatal when tumors
block the turtle's mouth and eyes, obstructing the animal's movement and
food intake. Experts believe the illness is caused by a virus.
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- A dead turtle found on Iriomote Island, Okinawa Prefecture,
last summer had numerous tumors around the neck and legs and was diagnosed
with severe fibropapillomas. Experts, however, could not determine the
cause of death.
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- Another dead turtle was found on a beach in Omaezaki,
Shizuoka Prefecture, in September with lesions on its legs. A 3rd turtle,
still alive, was caught in a fishing net in November off Kochi.
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- ProMED-mail promed@promedmail.org
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- Dr Akira Goto, who is gratefully acknowledged for forwarding
the above articles, has also sent us the following 2 URL's with pictures
of affected turtles, downloaded from the website of the Sea Turtle Association
of Japan:
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- The dead turtle found on Iriomote Island, Okinawa Prefecture:
http://www4.osk.3web.ne.jp/~umigame/FpGreen.HP.JPG
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- and the case caught in a fishing net off Kochi: http://www4.osk.3web.ne.jp/~umigame/Fp.murotoHP.JPG.
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- In 2000, a 4837-bp sequence of a newly found green turtle
herpesvirus (GTHV), implicated in the etiology of green turtle fibropapilloma,
was obtained by researchers at the Retrovirology Research Laboratory, Pacific
Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, in
2000, from tumor tissues of a green turtle with fibropapilloma. See "Rapid
acquisition of entire DNA polymerase gene of a novel herpesvirus from green
turtle fibropapilloma by a genomic walking technique"; Yu Q, Hu N,
Lu Y, Nerurkar VR, Yanagihara R.; J Virol Methods. 2001 Feb; 91(2):183-95.
- Mod.AS.
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