According to a latest report, the coast line along the west coast of North America is losing its sea stars due to a deadly virus.

The sea stars are getting mysteriously ill due to this assumedly dangerous virus. Sources have revealed that the coastline is losing sea stars by the millions.

It is also assumed by Paula Romagosa, who is a marine biologist and curator at the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney, B. C. that this deadly virus has the potential to wipe out all the starfish along the west coast of North America.

Paula Romagosa said that such events have also taken place in history, but not on such a large scale. He says that the present magnitude of the virus is almost unbelievable and has never been seen or witnessed by any expert earlier.

This large scale die-off of the sea stars has been detected first in the month of August in Howe Sound off West Vancouver and in Indian Arm. At this, the sea stars were dying but at a very low rate or in small pockets.

According to sources, since then, the widespread die-outs of the species have been reported along the shoreline from Alaska to California.

Laurie Corbeil of Nanaimo said, "I've been watching the starfish and a large sea star for a week or two," she said in an email. "I notice that these are losing their limbs and turning to white goo".