Researchers identify the pathogen causing sea urchin mass mortalities in the Red Sea

A continuing study from Tel Aviv University has found that the deadly epidemic discovered last year, which has essentially wiped out Eilat's most abundant and ecologically significant sea urchins, has spread across the Red Sea and into the Indian Ocean. The alarming results were published in Current Biology.

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