"Identification of a fecal enteric bacterium as the cause of white pox means we cannot blame global warming as the main problem on the coral reefs, but it all adds up, " she said.
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"We're all stunned at the rapidity with which these new diseases are occurring, " said Dr . James W . Porter, a marine ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who last year discovered a new disease known as white pox.
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Dr . James Porter, a marine ecologist at the University of Georgia who has been studying corals off South Florida for more than two decades, said that in some areas near Key West, the white pox had killed 50 percent to 80 percent of the elkhorn coral, or Acropora palmata, the dominant coral form in the area.
