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Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus

General Information
1. NCBI Taxonomy ID
2. Introduction
Vaccine Related Pathogen Genes
Vaccine Information
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I. General Information

1. NCBI Taxonomy ID:

2. Introduction

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) is a deadly fish virus and aquatic invasive species that attacks and weakens the blood vessels of fish. Broken blood vessels and severe blood loss ultimately causes death. It afflicts more than 50 species of freshwater and marine fish in several parts of the northern hemisphere. Scientists are not sure how the virus arrived. It may have come in with migrating fish, or may have hitchhiked in ballast water from ships. VHS was first found in European freshwater trout in the late 1930s and continues to cause epidemics in European trout farms. It appeared on the U.S. West Coast in 1988 in marine trout and salmon (WISC - VHSV).

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