Other Animal Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The deadly chytrid fungus has for the 1st time been found to infect and kill species other than amphibians, giving clues on how it causes disease.
The fungus, _Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis_ (Bd), is a type of chytrid that has severely affected over 700 amphibian species worldwide, and has made more species extinct than any other infectious disease known to science — at least 200 so far. It causes chytridiomycosis, a disease that damages amphibian skin and rapidly kills its host.
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