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News Release 06-020
Outbreak: Rapid Appearance of Fungus Devastates Frogs, Salamanders in Panama
Deadly organism is likely heading east
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Harlequin frogs and other amphibians at El Cope, Panama, and elsewhere have been devastated by a waterborne fungus.
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
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A rocket frog is dying near a stream in El Cope, Panama.
Credit: Forrest Brem
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White poison oozes from the glands of this dead toad in a stream in El Cope, Panama.
Credit: Forrest Brem
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A dead golden frog decomposes on a mossy boulder in El Cope, Panama.
Credit: Forrest Brem
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