Frogs Fight Off Disease (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Reno

Frogs Fight Off Disease

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The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving scientists clues on how to predict and respond to emerging diseases and epidemics in humans, plants and other wildlife. In their paper published in the magazine Science, March 30, University of Nevada, Reno's Jamie Voyles and her colleagues document the recovery of some tropical amphibians following continued exposure to a lethal pathogen.

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Cori Zawacki

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