Other Animal Disease -- United States
A college laboratory has solved what has been a maddening 13-year mystery: what killed so many of the prized smallmouth bass in the lower Susquehanna and Juniata rivers [Pennsylvania], beginning in 2005? The answer -- a shocker to Pennsylvania and federal investigators -- is largemouth bass virus. It's a disease that was known to be present in Susquehanna smallmouths but had been ruled out early on because it was thought it couldn't harm them.
Turns out it can be lethal when the shallow
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5840337&promed&0
No comments:
Post a Comment