The killer disease that has been decimating the seal population in Scandinavia and Scotland has arrived on Irish shores. Environmentalists in the west of the country are anxiously monitoring the situation off the coast of Ballyvaughan, County Clare.
Report shows the Burren, County Clare, and seals basking on rocks.
Interview with John McNamara, Burren Wildlife Symposium, who says that the disease is getting closer to the seal colony.
The landscape of the Burren.
Seals in the sea.
Interview with John McNamara, who says that vaccination is very difficult.
Interview with John McNamara who expresses fears that the disease will come inland.
The reporter is Michael Walsh.
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