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Yep, oysters with herpes. Once more, with feeling: oysters. With herpes. In San Diego Bay. Higher water temperatures appear to be killing young Pacific oysters, or rather, allowing a strain of herpesvirus to kill them. Fortunately, the ostreid herpesvirus, or OsHV-1, doesn’t pose a threat to humans, so it’s not panic stations. But oyster farms are being disrupted. It’s time to discuss oysters with herpes, or more specifically, the relationship between rising water temperatures and the spread of a deadly virus that infects Pacific oysters. That’s the purview of a recent study into the phenomeno…

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