The decision to delay the implementation of proposed rules to contain a deadly fish virus is the right one.
The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's rules require testing and inspections of farm-raised and bait species susceptible to viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS. The virus has caused a number of large fish kills in the Great Lakes region.
VHS is a highly contagious virus that literally causes fish to bleed to death, but cannot be transmitted to humans even if they eat the flesh of an infected fish. Scientists believe it is among many invasive species ferried into the Great Lakes in ballast tanks of oceangoing freighters. (More)
Source: SheboyganPress.com
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