Baikal
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Scientists have named the probable cause of infection of the Baikal seal
(ORDO NEWS) — Sick pets or birds could cause infection of the Baikal seal with a dangerous virus – parvovirus enteritis, the lethality of which reaches 60%. This was reported on March 1 by the Gorod Bratsk telegram channel, citing Maria Suslova, senior researcher at the Aquatic Microbiology Laboratory of the Limnological Institute. “The source [of infection] can be dogs, birds, from which [the virus] can get into the water.…
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Science
Baikal earthquake. What’s behind this
(ORDO NEWS) — On the night of September 22, an earthquake of almost six magnitudes occurred on Lake Baikal, followed by an aftershock. “The wooden house was shaking!” – one of the eyewitnesses described what happened on social networks. All over Buryatia, there were tremors, many people were frightened because for ten years there was nothing like this. RIA Novosti understands why in the stable regions of the planet, in…