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PRO/AH/EDR> Snake fungal disease – USA: (LA) 1st report, 2015

Other Animal Disease -- United StatesThere was something wrong with the juvenile broad-banded water snake researchers found in March 2015 in the Lake Martin area of Louisiana. Despite warm temperatures outside, the snake was coiled up and basking in the sun on the trail."It didn't do anything. I picked it up and it couldn't even right itself," said Brad "Bones" Glorioso, ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Lafayette.Glorioso took the young snake back Read more [...]