ROME: A highly contagious disease is spreading among farmed and wild tilapia, one of the world's most important fish for human consumption, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.

The Rome-based UN agency said the outbreak should be treated with concern, and countries importing tilapias should take appropriate risk-management measures, including intensifying diagnostics testing, enforcing health certificates, deploying quarantine measures and developing contingency plans.

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