Date: March 29, 2018
Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Summary:
What slows or stops a disease
epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that wild frogs are
becoming increasingly resistant to the chytrid fungal disease that has
decimated amphibian populations around the world.
Black plague killed between 30 to
50 percent of people worldwide. The cause, Yersinia pestis, is still
around, but people are not dying of the plague. An even more devastating modern
disease caused by the chytrid fungus wiped entire frog and salamander
populations off the map. New results from work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute (STRI) in Panama published in the Mar. 29 edition of Science,
reveal the outcomes of the chytridiomycosis epidemic and their implications for
diseases of mass destruction.
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