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• Main Authors: Oregon Sockeye, Salmon Disease
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Pacific; Sockeye; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.180.4500

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) is a serious viral disease of salmonid fish. This disease was first reported at fish hatcheries in Oregon and Washington in the 1950s. The causative virus now exists in many wild and farmed salmonid stocks in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It h...