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Ecology: Emergency medicine for frogs

With chytrid fungus rapidly spreading around the world, researchers are testing an extreme approach to saving endangered amphibian populations. Naomi Lubick reports from a rescue site.

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Naomi Lubick is a freelance writer based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Lubick, N. Ecology: Emergency medicine for frogs. Nature 465, 680–681 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465680a

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