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Article: Fish-Killing Virus Found in Lake Huron
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- January 26, 2007
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A fast-spreading aquatic virus threatening stormy waters for the Great Lakes fishing industry has been detected in Lake Huron for the first time, officials said Thursday.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it had confirmed the presence of viral hemorrhagic septicema, or VHS, in fish samples from waters as far north as Cheboygan - only about 15 miles from where Lake Huron meets Lake Michigan.
VHS previously had been found in only two of the Great Lakes - Ontario and Erie - and in Lake St. Clair, which links lakes Erie and Huron. But officials have predicted the virus eventually would spread across the entire lakes system, where the $4.5 billion ...