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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:53:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: ProMED-mail
Subject: PRO/AH> Infectious salmon anemia - Canada: (BC) Pacific, 1st rep
INFECTIOUS SALMON ANEMIA - CANADA: (BRITISH COLUMBIA) PACIFIC, 1ST
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Date: Tue 18 Oct 2011
Source: Metro News [edited]
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/999363—salmon-disease-found-in-pacific-fish
A highly infectious disease recently found in salmon could have
profound effects on both the British Columbia salmon industry and
local aboriginal communities, a Simon Fraser University [SFU]
professor warned yesterday [17 Oct 2011].
SFU researchers Richard Routledge and Nicole Gerbrandt, in
collaboration with independent biologist Alexandra Morton, found the
1st-ever traces of the disease, infectious salmon anemia (ISA), in
wild sockeye salmon in the North Pacific Ocean. 2 out of 48 salmon
smolts [young salmon] collected from Rivers Inlet were infected with
the virus, and researchers fear it could spread.
[byline: Kendra Wong]
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