Animal Die-off -- United States
A ghoulish mystery is playing out along the shores of San Francisco Bay, where at least 80 leopard sharks -- docile spotted animals that don't eat people -- have washed up dead in recent weeks.
Scientists suspect the sharks are being killed by a fatal brain infection linked to a fungus that may have been spread around by the huge amounts of rain California received this year [2017]. The historic storms also reduced the bay's salinity in ways that could have weakened the sharks, some
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2pUAli8
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