Other Animal Disease -- Spain
After a 6-year effort, researchers on the Spanish island of Majorca [Balearic Islands] have rid several groups of Majorcan midwife toads of the pathogen _Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis_ -- better known as chytrid fungus, or Bd. It's the 1st time the disease, which is devastating amphibians worldwide, has been eradicated in a wild population.
"This is proof of principle that you can go out there and mitigate infections and that the method doesn't need to be that complex," said Trenton
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/1mIOnNq
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