date:Jan 22, 2014
veloping possible measures to reduce the risk of AHPND outbreaks.
EMS outbreaks started in China in 2009 and then spread successively to Vietnam (2010), Malaysia (2011) and Thailand (2012). The outbreaks were characterised by acute hepatopancreatic necrosis in the absence of any accompanying sign of an infectious agent during the early cultivation period of about 35 days.
Early last year, the causal agent was identified as a specific type of bacteria that tentatively belong to the species Vi