About the Authors

Lonneke L. IJsseldijk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

L.L.IJsseldijk@uu.nl (LIJ); Ursula.siebert@tiho-hannover.de (US)

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abbo van Neer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Büsum, Germany

Rob Deaville

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

Lineke Begeman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Marco van de Bildt

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Judith M. A. van den Brand

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Andrew Brownlow

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, SRUC Veterinary Services, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

Richard Czeck

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Wadden Sea National Park Authority of Lower Saxony, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Willy Dabin

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Observatoire PELAGIS, University of La Rochelle - CNRS, La Rochelle, France

Mariel ten Doeschate

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, SRUC Veterinary Services, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

Vanessa Herder

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Helena Herr

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Current address: CeNak, Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Büsum, Germany

Jooske IJzer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Thierry Jauniaux

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Morphology and Pathology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Lasse Fast Jensen

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Aalborg University, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience - Section for Environmental Technology, Aalborg, Denmark

Paul D. Jepson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

Wendy Karen Jo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Jan Lakemeyer

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Büsum, Germany

Kristina Lehnert

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Büsum, Germany

Mardik F. Leopold

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Wageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, The Netherlands

Albert Osterhaus

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Matthew W. Perkins

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

Uwe Piatkowski

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Institut für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten der Tiere, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Gießen, Germany

Ralf Pund

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Lower Saxonian State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES), Cuxhaven, Germany

Peter Wohlsein

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Andrea Gröne

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ursula Siebert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

L.L.IJsseldijk@uu.nl (LIJ); Ursula.siebert@tiho-hannover.de (US)

Affiliation Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Büsum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.