Chytridiomycosis
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Chytridiomycosis is a fatal infectious disease that affects amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungus - Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis to be more specific. There is no cure, no means of preventing its spread, and no way of protecting animals against it, the Zoological Society of London reported to BBC News, 2 October 2005 [1]. The disease contributed to a worldwide decline in frog populations and it has been advanced that it is largely responsible for the extinction of 30% of the frog species in the world in the past 15 years. Studies suggest that it has been spread by the international trade in African clawed frogs.
In September 2005 it was identified as being present in a colony of American bullfrogs in the south-east of England.
