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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: for the sea stars, in their pain
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:07:52 -0400 (EDT)
for the sea stars, in their pain http://www.alansondheim.org/shell2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/shell.mp4 sea stars, on the east and west coasts of north america, are dying from a hideous wasting diseases that eats away at them, until nothing is left but the ossicles. they're in pain; the culprit is unknown, but thought to be a water-born virus or bacterium. see the lead story in Science this week (2 may 2014, #6183). infected sea cucumbers and sea urchins have also been found. this is one of the saddest ecological catastrophes in recent memory.
