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Pregnancy test may lie behind frog fungus - Daily Times

What do an old pregnancy test for women and a mysterious fungus that is killing frogs have in common? Plenty, according to researchers at North-West University in South Africa, who believe they have traced the spread of the killer fungus to trade in the African clawed frog, used for decades in a bizarre but effective way of determining pregnancy.“We think we have traced the origin of the spread of the amphibian chytrid fungus to the ‘frog’ pregnancy test for women, which Was widely used from the 1930s to the 1960s,” said Che Weldon, a zoologist at North-West University who has been researching the phenomenon.That test involved taking the urine of a woman and injecting it into an African clawed frog. If.... woman Was pregnant the hormones in her urine would stimulate ovulation in the frog and it would spawn within a matter of hours.The species Was exported to labs around the world in huge quantities from South Africa from the 1930s - the decade in which Weldon has traced the first recorded case of the fungus by examining preserved frogs in museum collections.Some of the exported frogs were released or escaped into the wild where it is believed they - More available

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