Diseases and Medications - Parasites, Bacteria, Viruses, Medications, Treatments, Stress, Pathogens
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University of Minnesota researchers see a recent fish virus outbreak as a chance to combat an invasive species plaguing state lakes.
As of September 2017, this is the latest and greatest article available anywhere on KHV.
What if you didn't have to dissect a specimen in order to see the cells under a microscope? That technology is coming, and in 3D.
In both our Koi and commercial aquaculture, the delivery of antibiotics has been by individual injection. Read about a company that is researching the use of functional feed additives as a replacement to injections...
Adding salt to the water of a sick tank or quarantine tank can help sick or compromised Koi. In essence, it makes it easier for them to breathe, just the way supplemental oxygen helps people. To learn more about how salt reduces the osmotic pressure gradient, take K.O.I. #206 - Physiology - CLICK HERE for course description. Here's what Dr. Richmond Loh, the Fish Vet from Australia has to say about salt...
Work is being done to improve fish welfare, and write better standards for farmed fish or any fish kept in cativity. This has implications for Koi keepers...
The initial purpose of eDNA methodology is for aquaculturists to avoid serious losses (deaths, inappetance, poor growth, increased production time, disease spread, cost of medicines, cost of diagnostics, delayed harvest, gaps in production, replacement costs, loss of breed lines, etc.) due to disease outbreaks, for the better health and welfare of their fish stocks.
Below is an article about the National Carp Control Plan of Australia, that does a very good job of describing what is currently known. The decision by the govenment is due at the end of 2018, and studies are being done now...
While Carp Edema Virus (CEV) was originally limited to Japan, it's now out there in Europe, and probably the USA too. If you keep Koi, you'll need to learn more about this killer Virus... Remember, there is NO CURE for viruses, the only way to keep your Koi alive is to PREVENT it in the first place. Read the abstract below, and I've also posted a link so you can download the original research.
This is an excellent webinar about KHV and some things you can do to protect against it. For those of you following the controvercy about releasing KHV in Australia to control invasive carp, this is a webinar from AVMA about it - and it has some good biosecurity suggestions for those of us who don't want KHV in our Koi collection...
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