Emerg Infect DiseidEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-6059Centers for Disease Control106535682627976Research ArticleMolecular genetic evidence of a novel morbillivirus in a long-finned pilot whale (Globicephalus melas).TaubenbergerJ. K.taubenbe@afip.osd.milTsaiM. M.AtkinT. J.FanningT. G.KrafftA. E.MoellerR. B.KodsiS. E.MenseM. G.LipscombT. P.Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., USA.Jan-Feb2000614245

A long-finned pilot whale with morbilliviral disease was stranded in New Jersey. An immunohistochemical stain demonstrated morbilliviral antigen. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction for morbillivirus P and N genes was positive. Novel sequences most closely related to, but distinct from, those of dolphin and porpoise morbilliviruses suggest that this virus may represent a third member of the cetacean morbillivirus group.