The early mortality syndrome (EMS) disease is still stirring up the global shrimp industry, despite several breakthroughs earlier this year.
While it is known the pathogen is an orally-transmitted bacteria, many questions remain.
"It is not an easy disease, it is truly a primary infection -- a killer," Robins McIntosh, senior vice president of Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) said during a short presentation at GOAL 2013.
"And it’s different." It grows "extremely fast," is a colonizer and produces a potent toxin.
The only way forward is to understand the "enemy," to further study it, to find out why it's growing and how exactly it infects shrimp.
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