A mysterious coral disease is ravaging Caribbean reefs

Off St. Thomas, the disease is moving faster and killing more corals than any disease before

maze corals with lesions

CORAL KILLER  Lesions (white) eat into the tissue of maze corals on Flat Cay reef, near St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The lesions are caused by a new and deadly disease that’s spreading through the Caribbean.

M. Brandt

Divers monitoring coral reefs off St.