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This deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world

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World Economic Forum

Publication Date
2019-04-09

In the 1970s, frogs in remote regions of Australia and Central America began to suddenly disappear. Researchers investigated whether climate change, UV radiation, or pollution caused the disappearance, but they didn’t find a clear explanation until a small team in northern Queensland realized the population declines resembled the pattern of an extraordinary disease outbreak.

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/killer-fungus-is-wiping-out-world-s-amphibians/