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Adrian Macedo, a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, works with a northern cottonmouth snakes in the Cache River Basin this fall.
Macedo is looking into Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, a fungus that causes skin and tissue breakdown, leading to lesions typically on the head and face of snakes. Severely infected snakes often lose the ability to eat and end up dying, while others clear the infection after shedding their skins.
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