Wednesday 27 September 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Coral reef kill - USA: (HI) black band disease, reemergence

Other Animal Disease -- United States
Black band disease is once again spreading through some corals around Kauai, according to Hanalei researcher Terry Lilley.
Over the past 2 months, Lilley surveyed the same 20 sites that he monitored in 2013 and 2014 with researchers from University of Hawaii, US Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA].
The disease appeared off the North Shore in 2012 and dissipated in mid-2015, but Lilley says he's now documenting a 5 percent rise in North Shore

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2hwr4cs

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