KHV isolated and to be renamed

12 October 2003

[See Intervet AAH Newsletter no. 6 for related article.] According to research findings in a forthcoming article in the quality journal Vaccine, the virus that has been the cause of high mortalities in Koi populations around the globe has been isolated. The article, "Efficient vaccine against the virus causing a lethal disease in cultured Cyprinus carpio”, by Ariel Ronen et al. of the Department of Pathology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, announces that the virus previously known as Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) is not a member of the Herpes virus family, and that renaming it is in order. The new name proposed is "carp nephritis and gill necrosis virus" (CNGV). It may not be a mouthful for the Koi, but it is for us! For further details, see http://www.koi-news.com/CNGV.html