Other Animal Disease — Spain
After a 6-year effort, researchers on the Spanish island of Majorca [Balearic Islands] have rid several groups of Majorcan midwife toads of the pathogen _Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis_ — better known as chytrid fungus, or Bd. It’s the 1st time the disease, which is devastating amphibians worldwide, has been eradicated in a wild population.
“This is proof of principle that you can go out there and mitigate infections and that the method doesn’t need to be that complex,” said Trenton
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