Science news articles about 'frog fungus'

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Researchers have developed two new strategies to fight the deadly fungal infection that has wiped out hundreds of frig species.

LONDON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A fungus decimating the world's frog species comes in several forms and has probably been spread by global trade in amphibians, British researchers say.

... not in the Sierra Nevada. Frog populations there have been devastated by chytrid, declining by 95 percent after the fungus was first ... therapies or inoculating the frogs with "probiotic" bacteria that produce a compound that kills the fungus. "The disease is not very ...