Disease

Advice on how to avoid major shrimp losses from early mortality syndrome (EMS) – one of the most devastating diseases to hit shrimp aquaculture in the last decade.

Mozambique’s fishery authorities say they are on high alert for a potential outbreak of red spot disease after a recent outbreak in neighbouring Malawi.

The governments of the five largest shrimp producing nations have been urged to take increased and immediate action to address the continued outbreak and emergence of new diseases in shrimp farms.

New methods for performing freshwater treatments against sea lice and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in salmon farms have been successfully developed and trialled in Ireland.

Aquaculture could play a key role in reducing bilharzia – a debilitating infection that affects more than 200 million people worldwide.

A veterinary scientist in the Faroe Islands has been credited with helping to halt the spread of Covid-19 in the archipelago by adapting tests previously used to detect infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).

A new study suggests that environmental and dietary changes are the key factors explaining why numerous seemingly healthy farmed salmon die in the run-up to harvest.

Andy Shinn, director of Fish Vet Group Asia, and a world renowned expert on aquatic parasites, believes that the shrimp sector can do more to limit the impact of those disease challenges that form the sector’s largest co…

A new study outlines the seven viral infections (other than tilapia lake virus) that can affect tilapia farms and profiles the steps the industry can take to tackle viral outbreaks.

A recent study suggests that tilapia lake virus (TiLV) causes systemic infections that can move to the hosts’ reproductive organs and transmit the infection from parents to offspring.

A new suspect has emerged in the search for the causes of the massive disease outbreak that has been affecting tilapia on Lake Volta in Ghana.

As EU countries consider banning many chemical therapeutants used in fish farming, researchers suggest using humic substances and hydrogen peroxide as sustainable and environmentally friendly treatments for parasitic dis…

A new study suggests that tilapia lake virus can be transmitted from parents to offspring.

Tilapia producers on Lake Volta are calling for urgent action by the Ghanaian government to deal with the very high level of fish mortalities, which they believe have been caused by the operations of a Chinese fish farm,…

Extreme weather events and changing ocean conditions are creating unpredictable outcomes for aquaculture. One area where research is offering some insight into what to expect, though, is the increasing incidences of dise…

A new study by MSD Animal Health indicates that pancreas disease vaccination can be an important tool to reduce infection pressure.

Mediterranean sea bass and sea bream farmers are being invited to join an online discussion focusing on viral encelophaty and retinopathy (VER), which causes viral nervous necrosis (VNN), on the MedAID Health Forum next …

Marine Harvest Scotland and Scottish Sea Farms have reported a sustained improvement in fish health during the first five months of 2018, with a marked reduction in disease-related mortalities.

​On April 17th, Hipra organised a theoretical training course in health and prevention, known as Hipra University, in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).