Other Animal Disease -- Worldwide/Unknown
A frog-killing fungus is responsible for the decline of more species than any other pathogen on record, a global analysis has found. The study, published on 28 Mar [2019] in Science, reveals that chytrid fungi have caused the decline of at least 501 amphibian species worldwide from 1965 to 2015, including 90 that have become extinct.
Other well-known pathogens such as the bat disease white-nose syndrome or West Nile virus, which kills birds, have affected just a fraction of the number of
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6394097&promed&0
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