{"id":232217,"date":"2025-10-29T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232217\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:56:10","slug":"seals-could-be-wiped-from-norfolk-and-suffolk-due-to-mouth-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232217\/","title":{"rendered":"Seals could be &#8216;wiped from Norfolk and Suffolk due to mouth rot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a &#8220;distinct possibility&#8221; harbour seals could be wiped from the Norfolk coast due to a disease, an animal charity said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seals, also known as common seals, were suffering from mouth rot, which caused mouth lesions and ulcers in newly weaned pups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sally Butler, chairperson of Friends of Horsey Seals, said the group had euthanised 25 pups this year due to the condition, which had been &#8220;totally heartbreaking&#8221;. Some cases had also been reported in Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jamie Bojko at the National Horizons Centre, Teesside University, Durham, was investigating the cause of the disease along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a &#8220;distinct possibility&#8221; harbour seals could be wiped from the Norfolk coast due to a disease,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-232217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}