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USGS: Coral disease outbreak an ?epidemic?
8 hours ago ? Chris D?Angelo - The Garden Island
HONOLULU ? A diagnostic report released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey says a coral disease outbreak along Kauai?s North Shore is nothing short of an ?epidemic.?
?Given the scale of the event, the large numbers of corals affected, and the consistent preponderance of a few agents (cyanobacteria and fungi) associated with gross lesions that look similar in both Makua (Tunnels Beach) and ?Anini, this outbreak would have to qualify as an epidemic,? Dr. Thierry Work, head of Infectious Disease for USGS, writes in the report.
USGS: Coral disease outbreak an ?epidemic?
8 hours ago ? Chris D?Angelo - The Garden Island
HONOLULU ? A diagnostic report released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey says a coral disease outbreak along Kauai?s North Shore is nothing short of an ?epidemic.?
?Given the scale of the event, the large numbers of corals affected, and the consistent preponderance of a few agents (cyanobacteria and fungi) associated with gross lesions that look similar in both Makua (Tunnels Beach) and ?Anini, this outbreak would have to qualify as an epidemic,? Dr. Thierry Work, head of Infectious Disease for USGS, writes in the report.