Alarm: Arctic ice flu is spreading this killer virus

The Phocine dissemper virus (PDV) has plagued marine mammals for decades, killing thousands of European cemeteries in the North Atlantic in 2002.

Two years later it was found that the North Sea villas in Alaska were affected by the virus.

Researchers were baffled by the way the virus could spread between species, because they had no contact because of Arctic ice blocking every street between them.

Now a research team from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has found that Europe-infected villas are traveling across the roads across northern Russia and Northern California that were opened by the lowest ice levels.

This historic change of sea ice may have allowed Arctic villas and under the Arctic met in a way that would not have been possible before.

The team that stayed behind found that this was the possible cause of the introduction of the virus into the North Pacific Ocean.