An international team of researchers has identified a unusual virus that attacks wild and farmed tilipia,an important source of inexpensive protein for the world's food supply. In work published this week in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, and the team clearly shows that the Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) was the culprit behind mass tilapia die-offs that occurred in Ecuador and Israel in recent years. The work also provides a foundation for developing a vaccine to protect fish from TiLV.
Source: phys.org