Deadly fish virus found in Wisconsin Waters
By Ben Wasserman-foodconsumer.org
May 13, 2007

Dead fish found in Little Lake Butte des Morts had tested positive for a deadly virus called viral hemorrhagic septicemia or VHS, news media reported Saturday. VHS may also have infected fish in Lake Winnebago where dead fish was also found.

The virus caused huge fish kills in several eastern Great Lakes in 2005 and 2006, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The state officials early suspected that VHS has already gotten into Lake Michigan and maybe in Lake Superior and the Mississippi Rover as well.

VHS does not pose any health threat to people who eat or handle infected fish. However, it can kill a total of 25 game fish, bait fish and panfish. "This is a major fish health crisis," Mike Staggs, fisheries director with the DNR was quoted by postcrescent.com as saying. the rest