BC Salmon Virus: “Everybody Wants to Know How Bad It’s Going to Be”

October 24, 2011 By: Marshall Cutchin

Rachel Nuwer writes in The New York Times about the recent discovery of infectious salmon anemia in two wild juvenile salmon in British Columbia and how scientists, caught unaware by the sudden the virus’s appearance, aren’t certain whether the source was fish farms or possibly even an angler who had visited Chile.  (Thanks to Robert Tomes for this link.)