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The strange disease spreading through Florida's corals

Lesson created by Alexandra Panzer using TED-Ed's lesson creatorVideo from OceanX YouTube channel

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In the past 70 years, coral cover in the iconic Florida Keys has dropped from 50% to 5% and is predicted to fall even lower thanks to a brand-new villain known as stony coral tissue loss disease. OceanX took scientists from Mote Marine Lab and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on a survey of the Florida Reef Tract to identify the bacteria causing the corals to get sick and try to find a cure.

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