White Pox Disease (IMAGE)

University of Georgia

White Pox Disease

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White pox disease on a frond of the endangered elkhorn coral on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys. White pox disease comes from humans, but when it infects coral, as in this case from the Upper Keys, it causes white blotches by killing the overlying coral tissue and revealing the coral’s white limestone skeleton underneath.

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James W. Porter, University of Georgia

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