NORTH AMERICA VSA RESEARCH
June 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE THE DEADLY viral hemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV), which causes fatal anaemia and haemorrhaging in many fish species, has been discovered for the first time in norther-eastern north America, in upstate New York, by Cornell University researchers. In May 2006, scientists isolated the virus in round gobies that died in a massive fish kill in the southern St Lawrence River and in Irondequoit Bay, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester, New York. The virus, which poses no threat to humans, infects round gobies, muskellunge, ...
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