Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia

September 12, 2007, WASHINGTON – Determined to prevent viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a deadly fish disease, from spreading in the Great Lakes, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., joined eight of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee asking them to include authority in the upcoming 2007 farm bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide assistance to states for monitoring, testing, controlling and enforcement efforts.    » read more »

September 12, 2007, Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton joined several of her colleagues in urging the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to provide assistance in the upcoming 2007 Farm Bill to states whose aquaculture and fishing industries have been blighted by the deadly fish disease, Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS).    » read more »