Timber Rattlesnake (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Timber Rattlesnake

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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, including the timber rattlesnake, pictured. This emerging disease is sometimes fatal to snakes.

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Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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