Assertion: starfish | /r/CapableOf | waste disease
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text: In nearly two years, what became known as sea star wasting disease would hit 15 to 20 species of starfish on the West Coast, from Alaska to Mexico, but two were hit particularly hard—the ochre and sunflower sea stars.
text: Starfish wasting disease, which leads to mass die-offs through decay, lesion formation, and ultimate fragmentation of the animal, has been potentially linked to a densovirus.
text: Sea star wasting disease or starfish wasting syndrome is a disease of starfish and several other echinoderms that appears sporadically, causing mass mortality of those affected.
text: In 2014 it was suggested that the disease is associated with a single-stranded DNA virus now known as the sea star-associated densovirus (SSaDV); however, sea star wasting disease is still not fully understood.
text: Observations of symptoms spread throughout California, Washington and southern Canada throughout 2013, but sea star wasting disease did not begin affecting sea stars in the intertidal zone in Oregon until spring 2014.
text: Because scientists had been studying sea star populations before the outbreak of sea star wasting disease, there is a good understanding of how the disease affected population sizes and dynamics.