Pinna Nobilis, the largest bivalve mollusk in the Mediterranean, is under attack from a parasite from Spain. The biologist Sgambati: "A species symbol of our seas at risk"
Roberto Danovaro: “Viral infections are a phenomenon that we encounter at sea more and more often. Partly because research is progressing and is able to give names to certain diseases more precisely than in the past. In part because the deterioration in the quality of the sea caused by anthropogenic phenomena such as pollution weakens the immune system of marine organisms. For example, it has been known for a decade that a virus of the coronavirus family is related to episodes of mass deaths of dolphins and sea lions. Even in the whale found dead a few weeks ago in Capri, the death could be related to a viral encephalitis"

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