June
25th 2007
#1 disease affecting coral is the herpes virus

Posted under Science & News

Herpes is non-lethal in humans, but the immunity system of coral isn’t built to combat it, microbiologists from the San Diego State University have found. Herpes viruses are naturally found in many different animals (95 percent of humans carry some kind of herpes virus). But the article didn’t make clear how humans transfer the virus to coral.

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