Ignored fungal disease could be causing a frog epidemic globally
Scientists say frogs could be dying from a fungal infectious disease called chytridiomycosis that has largely gone ignored on the African continent. PHOTO | RODRIGO BUENDIA | AFP
Have you been hearing less and less croaks from the neighbourhood swamp or stream? Scientists say frogs could be dying from a fungal infectious disease called chytridiomycosis that has largely gone ignored on the continent. And it might have something to do with climate change.
Billed as one of the worst vertebrate diseases in recorded history, it is believed to have begun spreading widely in Africa in 2000 and may be causing overlooked epizootics, the equivalent of an epidemic in humans.
