{"id":265193,"date":"2023-10-19T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265193"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:50:08","slug":"indias-first-tilapia-parvovirus-reported-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-tilapia-parvovirus-reported-in-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first tilapia parvovirus reported in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia\u2019s first tilapia parvovirus reported in Tamil Nadu\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV) case has been reported for the first time in India in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV) is a small, nonenveloped, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virus affects <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tilapia, a freshwater fish species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virus was first reported in China in 2019 and Thailand in 2021.India is the third country to report the occurrence of TiPV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a mortality rate ranging from 30 to 50% in the farm and 100% mortality in the laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is <\/b><b>Tilapia?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tilapia are <\/span><b>mainly freshwater fish.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It inhabits the shallow streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes, and less commonly found living in brackish water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are mainly considered as a <\/span><b>poor man\u2019s fish.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Mozambique tilapia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was introduced to Indian fresh water bodies in the 1950s and it is called Jilabi in Tamil.It is capable of surviving in low-oxygen levels in water.The fish has turned invasive across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nile tilapia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was introduced in the 1970s.It is a little bigger and is cultured on a large-scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the tilapia species, the Indian government had authorized <\/span><b>import of only Oreochromis niloticus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1970 and red hybrids because of their fast growth and market demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In India, tilapia farming <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is being carried out in different parts of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.It is also sold in domestic markets as whole fish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s first tilapia parvovirus reported in Tamil Nadu\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19th October 2023 What is the News? The Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV) case has been reported for the first time in India in Tamil Nadu. What is Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV)? Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV) is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-tilapia-parvovirus-reported-in-tamil-nadu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s first tilapia parvovirus reported in Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-265193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":56,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698422581},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}