Not Yet Classified -- Saint Martin [France/Netherlands]
The Nature Foundation St Maarten has recently established the presence of 'tissue loss disease' on several local coral reefs. The disease is a relatively new issue that has been plaguing coral reefs in the Atlantic Basin for the last few months. The coral reef disease manifests itself through the creation of white blotches on stony coral, eventually leading to the loss of tissue and eventual death in the coral colony. The disease affects 20 different species of coral and is able to kill
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6165099&promed&0
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