Herpes -- United Kingdom
CEFAS (Centre for Environmental Fisheries Aquacultural Science) confirmed last week [week of 29 Jul 2019] that Osprey Lake at the centre of its Kippax Park complex [Leeds, England] had fallen to koi herpes virus - KHV.
The deadly viral disease can cause a 100 per cent wipeout of all carp stocks and has no known cure, often said to be aquaculture's equivalent of foot and mouth disease. As a carp killer it has no equal.
After a separate outbreak on the site's sister Lapwing Lake last year
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6610758&promed&0
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