VHS spreading through Lake Michigan, causes die-off in Milwaukee
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Source: Green Bay Press Gazette
A fast-spreading virus recently killed thousands of round gobies near Milwaukee, and officials fear the same fate may await fish elsewhere in Lake Michigan.
The gobies washed ashore May 28 after dying from viral hemorrhagic septicemia, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The virus causes fish to hemorrhage and suffer organ failure.
The Milwaukee incident made Lake Michigan the fourth of the five Great Lakes to suffer a large VHS-related fish kill. Only Lake Superior has avoided the disease.
