According to the article: "After a six-year effort, researchers on the Spanish island of Majorca have rid several groups of Maorcan midwife toads of the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis--better known as chytrid fungus, or B.d. It's the first time the disease, which is devastating amphibians worldwide, has been eradicated in a wild population."
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