Some 30 green sea turtles are discovered with a condition that eats away their shell as university researchers and animal rescuers combine their expertise to try and find a cause.
A mystery disease eating away at green sea turtle shells has been discovered by researchers on Queensland's Fraser Coast.Scientists have been conducting pathology tests to try and identify the cause of infectionThere has been a spike in recorded cases since the region's flood events earlier this yearResearchers said they were continuing to find turtles with sections of skin and scales shedding from the upper part of their shell.
"There was one or two with anecdotal evidence showing that they might have had it prior to the floods," she said.Dr Townsend said the cause of the disease could be due to a number of factors but it remained "a bit of a mystery". "We are also looking to see if this disease is localised and if it is just being found in the Fraser Coast region."Dr Townsend said if it was viral, or bacterial, there was a possibility that animals could spread it to one another.
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