Fish-Killing Virus Spreading in the Great Lakes

NY Times ^ | April 21, 2007 | SUSAN SAULNY

[neverdem]

virology ping

[Dallas59]

Must be Globull Warming.

[Lurker]

It'd be a real catastrophe is the Walleye fishery in Lake Erie were badly affected.

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[ex-Texan]

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) is spreading.

[neverdem]

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FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[BnBlFlag]

Are the female and minority fish populations the hardest hit?

[The Duke]

"The virus, a mutated pathogen not native to North America ..."

Another legacy of globalism(?)

[chessplayer]

There is a mite from Asia that is killing honeybees in the US and Europe. I don`t know any solution to prevent things like this happening, unless every country on the planet completely quarantines itself from any type of contact with any other country.

[AFPhys]

The easiest thing to do about these types of events it to blame them all on global warming.

So what if there is no science to back it up! There is precious little to back up algore’s crowd as far as future temperature and sea levels and glacier melt and economic cost or species depletion, either, and that doesn’t stop them.

[raybbr]

Scientists pointed to likely suspects, mainly oceangoing vessels that dump ballast water from around the world into the Great Lakes. (Ships carry ballast water to help provide stability, but it is often contaminated and provides a home for foreign species. The water is loaded and discharged as needed for balance.)

Did you read the article? Or, did you assume they blamed it on global warming?

So what if there is no science to back it up!

Who's not paying attention now?

[Nailbiter]

do you link to mite killing bees, thanks in advance

[Nailbiter]

Pardon, let me try again.
Do you have link to mite article or information, thanks in advance.

[Calvin Locke]

Zebra mussels come to mind...

[Calvin Locke]

Do a search on “Varroa mites”.

[Nailbiter]

thanks

[Dubh_Ghlase]

The virus, a mutated pathogen not native to North America

Then where is it native to? Bees dying, fish dying, poisoned animal food. Seems to bee a lot of dots popping up all of a sudden in our food supply...

[chessplayer]

“do you link to mite killing bees, thanks in advance”

Here ya go.

“The crisis has been forming since 1987, when a bee-killing mite - eventually named Varroa destructor - was discovered in the United States. The mites are from Asia, though it remains unclear how they were introduced here, Mussen said.”

http://www.law2.byu.edu/millerj2/news/sacbee.htm

It looks like it will be virtually impossible to eradicate them.

[chessplayer]

“If you live on the Great Lakes or in a similar coastal area, you’ve no doubt heard of zebra mussels or sea lamprey. Chances are you’ve also seen patches of purple loosestrife growing in your community or on the side of a local highway. You might not have recogized this attractive flowering plant as a non-native species, but it is. Although pretty to look at, these purple stalks are choking out native plant species by overtaking and altering their habitat.”

“More than 87 nonindigenous aquatic species have been accidentally introduced into the Great Lakes in the 20th Century alone. Once introduced, invasive species must be managed and controlled, as they are virtually impossible to eradicate.”

http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/ans/ans_1.html