Oysters with herpes, thanks to climate change

[wtmusic]

You can't make this stuff up.

"Deadly and incurable, the virus has been ravaging oyster communities near the coast of the U.K., killing off the Pacific variety of the shellfish.

While not contagious to humans and apparently only able to infect the Pacific strain of oysters, the disease now threatens the Pacific oyster industry off the English coast, Treehugger adds.

The cause, according to the National Geographic, could actually be related to global warming. The herpes strain infecting the oysters is only active in waters above a certain temperature, and remains dormant otherwise. As global water temperatures rise, new breeding grounds for the herpes virus appear."

http://www.sonub.com/?module=post&action=view&id=omg&idx=59933&rid=rina31ontue

[In_The_Wind]

1. That is sad news.

[stuntcat]

2. it's already killed "off the Pacific variety of the shellfish"?

I hope people will pay attention to this for reasons other than wanting to eat them.