MOROCCO OYSTER DISEASE OIE
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of Bonamia Ostreae amongst 580 oysters in Morocco. The OIE said that the oysters were destroyed at Khnifiss lagoon, Laayoune province, in the contested Western Sahara region. The outbreak was confirmed by Morocco's National Fisheries Research Institute, Casablanca
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THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported an outbreak of Bonamia Ostreae amongst 580 oysters in Morocco. The OIE said that the oysters were destroyed at Khnifiss lagoon, Laayoune province, in the contested Western Sahara region. The outbreak was confirmed by Morocco's National Fisheries Research Institute, Casablanca
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