International Trade Could Bring Highly Lethal Disease to United States
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2014. The journal Science yesterday published a studydocumenting a new threat to the world’s salamanders from a deadly skin-eating fungus. A relative of the killer chytrid fungus that has devastated frog populations, the new disease called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bs, is sweeping through salamander populations in Europe. While the disease has not yet reached the United States, scientists found that imports of…
