August 27, 2014

New trout disease detected in Chile

An unidentified trout disease has been detected in Chile.

The National Director of Sernapesca, José Miguel Burgos, expressed concern for the appearance of a syndrome that has appeared in trout, and for which does not correspond to any of the diseases of Schedule 1 of the World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) (increased risk of disease).

Sernapesca is the government agency in Chile overseeing aquaculture.

"We coined the name Syndrome Idiopathic Trout (SIT) and we are still investigating this issue, but I want to be emphatic in reiterating that all analysis we have done in Chile and Europe have been quite negative for the diseases of greatest risk, so it would be a different agent having enough epidemiological and milder disease mortality than other behaviors," said Burgos.