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What does VHS stand for?

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (Salmon disease)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Ballast is even blamed for the emergence of viral hemorrhagic septicemia, often called Aofish ebolaAo, resulting in large fish kills in the past several years.
They require testing and inspections of 28 farm-raised and live bait species susceptible to viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Consider these examples: The sea lamprey preys on lake salmon; the zebra mussel has to be scraped off hulls and out of water intake pipes; and because of the resulting viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) virus, fish that would have filled the nets of trawlers are washing up dead on Lake Huron beaches.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Consider these examples: The sea lamprey preys on lake salmon; the zebra mussel has to be scraped off hulls and out of water intake pipes; and because of the resulting viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) virus, fish that would have filled the nets of trawlers are washing up dead on Lake Huron beaches.
Wildlife officials detected the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus in the lake system in May, alarming the state's fishing community.
The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus _ or VHS _ has now been identified in 19 species in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, including muskellunge, New York's No.
George Meyer, a former DNR secretary who is now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, said the discovery of viral hemorrhagic septicemia could be more devastating than chronic wasting disease, which was discovered in deer in 2002.
Current tests for the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus involve culturing cells and can take up to a month.

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