OIE WARNS OF OYSTER SICKNESS OUTBREAK IN SCOTLAND
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AQUATIC Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties) has reported an outbreak of Bonamia ostreae disease in a natural bed of flat oysters, near Kennacraig, in West Loch Tarbert, a sea loch off the Mull of Kintyre, western Scotland. The commission said 5,000 oysters were susceptible and that so far 150 had been destroyed. Movement controls and zoning have been imposed.
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THE AQUATIC Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties) has reported an outbreak of Bonamia ostreae disease in a natural bed of flat oysters, near Kennacraig, in West Loch Tarbert, a sea loch off the Mull of Kintyre, western Scotland. The commission said 5,000 oysters were susceptible and that so far 150 had been destroyed. Movement controls and zoning have been imposed.
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