Reply #9: So you dispute the assertion from the peer reviewed journal article? [View All]

[kristopher]

Journal the article is published in:
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, May 2006, p. 3390–3395 Vol. 72, No. 5

The article is by:
Thaddeus K. Graczyk,1,2*
Autumn S. Girouard,2
Leena Tamang,1
Sharon P. Nappier,1
and Kellogg J. Schwab1

Their affiliations:
Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
Division of Environmental Health Engineering,
Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205,1 and

The W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 212052

Their statement:

The Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), native to the Chesapeake Bay, has been a major shellfish species in the Bay for the past 3 centuries; however, its population has been devastated over time, beyond the point of restoration, predominantly due to overharvesting and oyster diseases such as multinucleated sphere X (MSX) disease (Haplosporidium nelsoni) and Dermo disease (Perkinsus marinus) (2, 4, 23).

That isn't my opinion, that is the scientific consensus.