Hi! We’re back. Did you miss us?
While we’ve been gone, it appears our favourite anti-salmon farming activist has slid a little further into insanity, and taken her little cult with her.
Today she made this astounding claim on her Facebook page, based on a Google Translate version of a Norwegian news article.
“Pox virus just discovered in farmed Atlantic salmon…. millions of Atlantic salmon have been imported into BC for salmon farming and no one knew to screen for this virus. THIS is one of the greatest dangers associated with salmon farming – importation of new viruses.”
OK first thing here, Alex, is that this virus was NOT just discovered. Are Nylund in Norway first described salmon gill poxvirus seven years ago.
Second thing is, no one has seen the lesions linked to this virus in BC farmed salmon.
It is clear, Alex, as you continue to make exceedingly ignorant and simplistic statements about viruses and diseases, that you do not understand how they work.
Let us explain it to you, as we would to a child.... Read the full blog here: http://salmonfarmscience.com/2015/09/25/alexs-astounding-ignorance-of-science-showcased-yet-again-in-error-riddled-pox-claims/
