Other Animal Disease -- United States
A devastating coral disease continues to spread through Florida's reefs and scientists say it may cause some coral species to go locally extinct; on WMNF's MidPoint we spoke with Greta Aeby, a coral disease ecologist who is studying this disease outbreak at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Ft Pierce. Aeby is a research associate with Qatar University in Doha.
On the show we found out what this tissue loss disease does to infected corals. Some researchers have called it "white-plague
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5913291&promed&0
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