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“Tilapia is one of the most important fish industries worldwide. Moreover, because they eat algae, they are ecological gatekeepers for freshwater and they are an inexpensive, important source of protein in poorer countries.”-Eran Bacharach, Tel Aviv University
Mass die-off at a tilapia farm in Israel-Palestine
Researchers in the U.S., Columbia, Ecuador, Scotland and Israel have discovered the true cause of tilapia die-offs, it’s not global warming but a previously unknown RNA virus now known as TiLV (Tilapia Lake Virus).
But there’s a problem, the major locations of tilapia die-off are not physically connected, so researchers are now focusing on how TiLV showed up at about the same time in two different locations. Israel and Ecuador are separated by 12310km (7,649 miles) if you’re traveling by air. Ecuador’s coastline is along the Pacific Ocean. Israel’s (Palestine’s) coastline is along the Mediterranean Sea and a tini-tiny bit that has access to the Red Sea.
TiLV causes brain swelling and liver disease. Die-offs of tilapia have been documented since 2009. Ecuador’s neighbor, the U.S. drug lord puppet Columbia, is also reporting tilapia die-offs. At first researchers thought tilapia were dying from a new form of Influenza C, but while it is similar it is also totally new: “The TiLV sequence has only minimal similarity in a small region of its genome to other viruses; thus, the methods we typically use to identify and characterize viruses through sequencing alone were insufficient.”-Eran Bacharach, Tel Aviv University
“It appears to be most closely related to a family of influenza viruses called orthomyxoviruses; however, we still don’t understand much about its biology.”-Nischay Mishra, Center for Infection and Immunity
Researchers were so baffled by the new virus they turned to help from the New York Genome Center. Tilapia farming is worth $7.5-billion USD on the global market.
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