Scientists search stream for source of salmon virus

The Boston Globe | January 21, 1999| | Copyright

It began with a few dead salmon floating inside a North Attleborough hatchery, killed by strange tumors that took hold on the "swim bladders" the fish use for balance and grew until the bladders burst.

Now, biologists are struggling to understand, and contain, a rare viral outbreak before it threatens the region's already depleted wild salmon population, which conservationists are trying to restore. Since the virus was confirmed last month, officials have quarantined a second hatchery in Maine, killed hundreds of exposed fish, and sent others to a federal lab in West Virginia for further ...

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