North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Are we ready?

Mongabay
May 20, 2020, 12:51 pm214 pts
Around 2008, a mysterious disease started killing off the fire salamanders in the Netherlands, and three years later, 96% were dead. That disease, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), is a relative of the chytrid fungus – (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or ‘Bd’) that has been implicated in the…

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