 Most notable is the white colour of their hemolymph, giving the illness the name “milky shrimp disease.” Mortality rates reached 100%, completely wiping out many aquafarms.Research on the aforementioned epidemics show that the same parasite is able to infect multiple crustacean hosts, as amplified partial SSU gene and ITS1 rDNA regions from the parasite infecting ridgetail white prawn were exceedingly similar to the sequences from parasites infecting swimming crabs and mud crabs (Xu "et al.