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Heat therapy for sick frogs lowers sperm levels

A common treatment for fatal fungal infection might have negative consequences for fertility

A frog with green and brown stripes.

Green and golden bell frogs (Ranoidea aurea) have suffered severe population declines in part due to a deadly chytrid fungus.

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By Priyanka Runwal

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