Within the framework of joint cooperation with government institutions and state departments in the province and their relentless endeavor to advance the reality of livestock, increase production and prevent the spread of epidemics and diseases, the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Karbala, in cooperation with the veterinary hospital in the province and a number of official departments, participated in the investigation committee for the disease (Koi Herpesvirus) after receiving information about the occurrence of high mortality rates in fish farming projects established on the Euphrates River in the Husseiniya district in the holy province of Karbala, and the committee included The problem is the professor of fish at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, assistant teacher Amir Hadawi Al-Saffah, in cooperation with the director of the fish unit at the veterinary hospital and the official of the Husseiniya veterinary clinic, in addition to representatives of the departments of health, mayor, agriculture, municipality, control and environment in the province.
The work of the committee included detecting the deaths, identifying the causes, working to bury the perishes correctly, and then dissecting the fish, taking samples and sending them to the central laboratories in Baghdad for the purpose of diagnosing this epidemic and working to bury the dead fish correctly to prevent the spread of the disease.
It is worth noting that the fish wealth faces annually and at this time specifically many problems due to the outbreak of the disease (Koi Herpes virus), which appeared in 2018 with a rise in the rates of deaths, especially in fish farming projects in the Euphrates River when the weather change occurs and through the dead fish are transferred with the flow of water to the neighboring governorates and fish farming projects.
Breeders were instructed not to throw dead fish into the river and to give some appropriate sterilizers to reduce mortality and reduce the virulence of this epidemic.
