Tag Archive for PRO/AH> Largemouth bass virus – USA: (PA) smallmouth bass

PRO/AH> Largemouth bass virus – USA: (PA) smallmouth bass

Other Animal Disease -- United StatesA college laboratory has solved what has been a maddening 13-year mystery: what killed so many of the prized smallmouth bass in the lower Susquehanna and Juniata rivers [Pennsylvania], beginning in 2005? The answer -- a shocker to Pennsylvania and federal investigators -- is largemouth bass virus. It's a disease that was known to be present in Susquehanna smallmouths but had been ruled out early on because it was thought it couldn't harm them.Turns out it can Read more [...]