Can marine protected areas reduce marine disease?

For some ocean creatures, infectious disease is growing amid a changing climate. Marine diseases, often caused by parasites, viruses, and injuries, keep making headlines. Seastar wasting disease, shrimp white spot disease, and white plague disease in coral were some of the big ones, killing thousands of individuals needed to maintain healthy ecosystems. For coral, shellfish, and finfish, warming temperatures are impairing immune responses during disease outbreaks. 

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