[Anne Elk]

Kootenay and Yoho NPs affected: All water bodies closed in 2 B.C. national parks due to parasite A photo of the nasty effects in this earlier article: Whirling disease confirmed in BC

[iron]

once this starts, there's no going back. too late now. soon it'll be in the columbia river and then throughout all of washington.

[altasnob]

Whirling disease has been in Washington since at least 2002. It's been in Montana since 1994 and was supposed to wipe out the sport fishing industry there, but that never happened.