Salmon virus originally from the Atlantic, spread to Pacific wild salmon from farms (VIDEO)

University of British Columbia

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Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) - which is associated with kidney and liver damage in Chinook salmon - is continually being transmitted between open-net salmon farms and wild juvenile Chinook salmon in British Columbia, Canada waters, according to a new genomics analysis published today in Science Advances.

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