Hmm....still NO MENTION of RADIATION from FUK! Brief mention of warming waters, and ocean acidification...and that their immune system has been weakend, and so the latent virus was able to take hold, and get out of control!!! So they havent actually SOLVED it...they have just identified a virus that was already there. After months of research, scientists have identified the pathogen at the heart of the starfish wasting disease that’s been killing starfish by the millions along the Pacific shores of North America, according to research published Monday. Video by Katie Campbell/KCTS9 “We are interested in the potential for stars to develop resistance to this outbreak,” says Drew Harvell, a marine epidemiologist at Cornell University and the University of Washington who has been coordinating the research. “The only way forward and to have sea stars in the future is for them to develop resistance and having new stars to propagate.” The research team also plans to continue investigating environmental factors such as warming water and ocean acidification that may have caused starfish to be more susceptible to the viral infection. read more in the article...pbs.org/newshour/rundown/scientists-solve-mystery-of-west-coast-starfish-deaths/#.VGuPIm_pXQM.facebook
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