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Sea star wasting disease or starfish wasting syndrome is a disease of starfish and several other echinoderms that appears sporadically, causing mass mortality of those affected. [1] There are approximately 40 species of sea stars that have been affected by this disease.
5 wrz 2024 · Sea stars along much of the North American Pacific coast experienced a massive die-off in 2013/14 due to a mysterious wasting syndrome. The disease, called “sea star wasting syndrome” (SSWS) has persisted at low levels in most areas, and continues to kill sea stars.
19 lip 2023 · Since 2013, sea stars from Alaska to Mexico have been dying in droves of a mysterious disease referred to as sea star wasting syndrome. Symptoms typically include the appearance of white lesions followed by tissue decay, body fragmentation and death, often within only a few days.
7 lis 2018 · The recent outbreak of Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) is one of the largest marine epizootics in history, but the host-associated microbial community changes specific to disease...
30 sty 2019 · Since 2013, sea star wasting disease (SSWD) has caused massive, ongoing mortality from Mexico to Alaska (known as the Northeast Pacific SSWD event).
Sea Star Wasting Disease. Sea stars are dying off at dramatic rates across the West Coast from Baja California in Mexico to Alaska. The wasting disease that is affecting sea stars also is not specific to one species: more than 20 sea star species have been affected so far.
Since 2013, sea star wasting disease (SSWD) has affected over 20 different species of sea stars on both the east [1] and west coasts of North America [2 – 7], and has caused the largest epizootic of marine invertebrate wildlife currently known [6].
