Virus hits Europe’s oysters – answers

questions

1. How is eating an oyster described here? as "giving the sea a kiss on the lips"
2. Which phrase is used to describe an oyster? the ‘food of love’
3. Why have oysters lost their ‘romance’? because of a virus that is affecting them
4. How is the virus lethal? it is lethal to the European oyster industry
5. Where do most European oysters come from? France – 90%
6. How much of its output is France set to lose? half
7. What is the value of this loss? as much as 300 million Euros
8. How long did it take the virus to kill the stock on this farm? one week
9. What is left to sell? nothing
10. Which two possible causes are cited for the virus? global warming and rising sea temperatures
11. What is costly? the ban on the movement of healthy stock
12. Why is it difficult to detect the virus? because it lies dormant
13. What is now unlikely? that demand (for oysters) will be met by European production