- Animals, Environment, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Whales, Wildlife
- September 25, 2026
Pneumonia is a common affliction among whales and dolphins. In a first for marine mammals, veterinarians have used bacteria-killing viruses to treat a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) with a drug-resistant infection. Jetta, an 11-year-old beluga whale at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, developed chronic pneumonia caused by multi-drug-resistant E. coli bacteria. After powerful antibiotics proved mostly
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- September 6, 2026
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READ MORECHICAGO — Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including one that was rehomed at the facility just weeks earlier as part of an international effort to rescue Canada’s last captive whales, the aquarium announced Wednesday. Rain, a 20-year-old female, was the second to die out of a group of four whales
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