I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out

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25 pointsBrajeshwar4 comments

TL;DR: A fungus, likely spread by human activity, has been causing a large die-off of other-wise healthy amphibians.

I'll add that there are lots of other causes of mass amphibian extinctions, usually tied to localized habitat destruction and/or climate change: https://blaustein.science.oregonstate.edu/pdfs/Kiesecker_200.... These causes also increase the susceptibility of amphibians to various pathogens/disease.

Too bad looking for a cure won't create shareholder value

Pretty sure we have decent anti fungals now, how are you going to administer it to all the frogs though?

Unfortunately our anti-fungal arsenal is not particularly large or all that great. Resistance evolves quickly for most of the commonly used ones; and the ones for which resistance is less easily acquired tend to be highly toxic (key problem being that core eukaryotic cell biology is highly conserved between fungi to animals).

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