Whirling Disease
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- Whirling Disease AZ Game and Fish
- State of Colorado Parks and Wildlife- Whirling Disease and Colorado's Trout
Cliff Note Version
- Whirling disease is a parasitic condition affecting fish, primarily rainbow trout.
- Now found in at least 20 states.
- Young fish are at greatest risk.
- First observed in the United States around 1958.
- Larger infected fish generally don't die but are carriers of the disease.
- Warm-water fish such as bass, walleye and catfish are not affected.
- Currently, No practical cure to treat wild trout infected with the disease.
- Once the disease parasite is established in the wild, it can persist indefinitely
