Toxic Pfiesteria inhabit foreign waters

The notorious Pfiesteria microbes, implicated in gory fish kills and human illness along the mid-Atlantic U.S. coast, have turned up in Norway.

Pfiesteria from Norway: Characteristic pattern of plates (identified by numbers) on piscicida (left), and the toxic stage of shumwayae (right). Proc. of the Royal Soc. of London B

No one reported a fish kill at the estuary of the Sandvikselva River, but it does contain the two known Pfiesteria species, according to Kjetill S.