USA SHRIMP DISEASE
April 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLTHE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of the potentially disastrous white spot disease on an American shrimp farm in the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i (SPELLING CORRECT). Already, said the OIE, there have been 6.8 million cases in this outbreak, involving 5.6 million deaths and 1.2 million shrimps being destroyed, with 16 million being susceptible. Hawaiian authorities have imposed quarantine and movement controls to halt the spread of the disease, whose origin at the time of the ...
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