Caribbean Coral Catch Disease From Sewage

[reefduffer]

In the news today on several sites.
Caribbean Coral Catch Disease From Sewage : NPR
What's killing coral near Key West? Study points to human waste – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

University of Georgia news release with links to the underlying academic paper:
Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys | General News | UGA Today
Which is at PLoS ONE: Human Pathogen Shown to Cause Disease in the Threatened Eklhorn Coral Acropora palmata

Executive summary: Elkhorn coral is being killed by a human pathogen found in incompletely treated sewage.

 

[FritzCat66]

Discover magazine also ran an article about it today.

 

[under-h2o-nerd]

This paper is actually pretty important. Those of us in the scientific community have long thought that there was a human/sewage connection to some coral diseases, but this paper is (to my knowledge) the first time that a direct connection has been made. Another great piece of science by Jim Porter...