INTERNATIONAL FISH DISEASE ROUND UP – TIGER PRAWN DISEASE HITS QUEENSLAND FARMS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIAN fish health authorities are working hard to contain an outbreak of infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus in Queensland, Australia, amongst giant black tiger prawns. The disease has been detected on two semi-closed salt water fish farms, one in the town of Proserpine and the other in Cardwell, both in tropical northern Queensland. In tests at Proserpine, 3.33% of samples tested positive out of 150 prawns; in Cardwell, 5.33% had the disease out of 150. The farms have been destocked, their ponds dried, treated with lime ...
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