Showing posts with label human disease spreads to wildlife. Show all posts
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Aug 18, 2011

Human diseases spreading to wildlife, destroyed coral reefs


A new study finds that humans spread disease to wildlife, with grim results. A bacterium from our guts is now rampaging through coral reefs in the Caribbean. Those reefs were already in slow decline, but they took a huge hit starting in 1996, when a disease called white pox appeared in the Florida Keys.