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Tilapia Lake Virus.

I just came across these couple of articles on a new virus (related to influenza) which is causing summer mortality in Tilapia in South America, Israel and now Egypt.
It may be wise to keep abreast of developments as this new disease spreads. It seems to be very mobile and has high mortality (up to 70%), but it i not yet known where it came from or how it has spread to different parts of the globe.

Researchers discover new fish virus that threatens global tilapia stocks

https://phys.org/news/2016-04-fish-viru ... lapia.html

And the second article:

Egyptian mortality mystery in tilapia fish closer to being solved

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-egyptian- ... -fish.html