| Ebola-like Virus Killing Fish in the Great Lakes [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)] |
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Written by 2000l, April 30th, 2007
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Scientists say that that an Ebola-like virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), is killing all species of fish in the Great Lakes. Due to a lack of genetic resistance to VHS, fish populations could ultimately be damaged in the same way that the smallpox virus struck Native Americans and Dutch elm disease decimated elm trees, says Jim Winton, chief of fish health at the U.S. Geological Survey in Seattle.
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