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Sea turtles can get herpes. And human pollution might be making their flare-ups worse.
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New Scientist Article by Alice Klein—Turtle herpes outbreak hints at Great Barrier Reef contamination:
http://bit.ly/29LYFuC
Van Houtan KS, Hargrove SK, Balazs GH (2010) Land Use, Macroalgae, and a Tumor-Forming Disease in Marine Turtles. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012900
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Green Sea Turtle Biscayne
Wikimedia Commons/Photo by National Park Service South Florida / Caribbean Network
Green turtle with fibropapillomatosis
Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Danielson
Herpesviruses
CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield
Cold sore
Wikimedia Commons/Ben Tillman
Chickenpox Adult back
Wikimedia Commons/F malan
Various viruses from the Herpesviridae family seen using an electron microscope
CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer
Figure 1. Hawaiian green turtle (Chelonia mydas) with fibropapillomatosis (FP) on the seafloor in Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District, North Shore, Oahu.
Van Houtan KS, Hargrove SK, Balazs GH (2010) Land Use, Macroalgae, and a Tumor-Forming Disease in Marine Turtles. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012900
Green sea turtle at Panaluu beach, Hawaii
Wikimedia Commons/Frank Schulenburg
Runoff of soil & fertilizer
Wikimedia Commons/ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Lynn Betts, photographer
Green Sea Turtle grazing seagrass
Wikimedia Commons/ P.Lindgren
Hypnea musciformis (herbarium item)
Wikimedia Commons/Channer
Sea turtle and remora
Wikimedia Commons/Angelponte
Arginin - Arginine
Wikimedia Commons/NEUROtiker
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Rusty Metal Squeak Goose
Freesound/gelo papas
Swishes
Freesound/Pogotron
Marker Writing on Paper
Freesound/ftpalad
Wink
Freesound/Benychico11
Pencil
Freesound/Faston
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Sea turtles can get herpes. And human pollution might be making their flare-ups worse.
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New Scientist Article by Alice Klein—Turtle herpes outbreak hints at Great Barrier Reef contamination:
http://bit.ly/29LYFuC
Van Houtan KS, Hargrove SK, Balazs GH (2010) Land Use, Macroalgae, and a Tumor-Forming Disease in Marine Turtles. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012900
http://bit.ly/29LVN0u
--
Host, Writer, Editor
Anna Rothschild
Camera, Production Help
Eben E. B. Bein
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2016
IMAGES
Turtlewithfptumors0149026
Wikimedia Commons/Peter Bennett & Ursula Keuper-Bennett
Green Sea Turtle Biscayne
Wikimedia Commons/Photo by National Park Service South Florida / Caribbean Network
Green turtle with fibropapillomatosis
Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Danielson
Herpesviruses
CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield
Cold sore
Wikimedia Commons/Ben Tillman
Chickenpox Adult back
Wikimedia Commons/F malan
Various viruses from the Herpesviridae family seen using an electron microscope
CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer
Figure 1. Hawaiian green turtle (Chelonia mydas) with fibropapillomatosis (FP) on the seafloor in Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District, North Shore, Oahu.
Van Houtan KS, Hargrove SK, Balazs GH (2010) Land Use, Macroalgae, and a Tumor-Forming Disease in Marine Turtles. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012900
Green sea turtle at Panaluu beach, Hawaii
Wikimedia Commons/Frank Schulenburg
Runoff of soil & fertilizer
Wikimedia Commons/ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Lynn Betts, photographer
Green Sea Turtle grazing seagrass
Wikimedia Commons/ P.Lindgren
Hypnea musciformis (herbarium item)
Wikimedia Commons/Channer
Sea turtle and remora
Wikimedia Commons/Angelponte
Arginin - Arginine
Wikimedia Commons/NEUROtiker
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Rusty Metal Squeak Goose
Freesound/gelo papas
Swishes
Freesound/Pogotron
Marker Writing on Paper
Freesound/ftpalad
Wink
Freesound/Benychico11
Pencil
Freesound/Faston
Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
