Vancouver Aquarium says bacterial infection linked to Chester's death

The Vancouver Aquarium says preliminary results from a necropsy show a false killer whale that died at the facility last Friday had a bacterial infection.
An email statement from the aquarium says it appears Chester, the three-year-old false killer whale, died of erysipelas, an illness veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena says has resulted in the deaths of wild cetaceans and those in human care.
Haulena says it is the first known case of the disease at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Because it is infectious