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Fish Ebola Poised to Hit the Mississippi

July 21, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

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ballastwater, fish, invasivespecies, VHS

The Washington Post reports that viral hemorrhagic septicemia, a disease often described as “fish ebola,” has been discovered in southern Lake Michigan and a reservoir in Ohio.  Hemorrhagic septicemia is an invasive species, most likely brought into the great lakes in...continued

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Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
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