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  • Study finds fungal disease of snakes in 19 states, Puerto Rico

    Oct 8, 2020 1:15 pm by Diana YatesResearch
    a timber rattler, one of more than 30 species of snakes susceptible to the fungal pathogen

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    A new study finds a wide distribution of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, a fungal pathogen that afflicts more than 30 species of snakes. This emerging disease is sometimes fatal.

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