Frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 14:14
in Biology & Nature
Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists have found that this trade is a potential carrier of pathogens deadly to amphibians.