For those of you in the Peterborough and Lyndsay area, you may have remembered last summer’s carp die off. Beach loads of dead carp mysteriously showed up on local waterways and it made local residents uneasy. The Peterborough Examiner reports that one of the culprits was the Koi Herpesvirus. The other disease, that was a factor, is blamed on a bacteria called, columnaris.

The paper states that,

The Koi herpesvirus, first found in North America in 1999, was discovered in two fish collected from the Scugog and Pigeon lakes last year, Cooper said. It only affects carp, goldfish and koi, he said, and is not a danger to humans, “because it can’t live in a body as warm as a human.”

It appears the residents can rest easy. Here’s hoping!