Frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 21:15

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States.

Scientists have found that this trade is a potential carrier of pathogens deadly to amphibians.

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