SVCV has been detected in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.12 It was first detected in the United States in 2002, in both farmed and wild fish populations experiencing mortality events.32, 33 Despite screening for SVCV and regulating live fish imported into the United States since 2006, new detections continue to be reported. To date, SVCV has been detected nine times in the United States and Canada,34 and epidemiological investigation and genetic analysis indicate that there may have been at least three independent introductions of SVCV into North America from as yet unidentified sources.30 Although the isolates of SVCV from salamanders described herein are distinct from viruses detected previously in North America, and their infectivity in fish has not yet been determined, this discovery suggests the possibility that introductions of SVCV could be due to movement of uncharacterized host species, such as amphibians.