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title: "Disease Threats to ACAP Species"
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# Disease Threats to ACAP Species

Infectious diseases have the potential to cause rapid declines and extinction in vulnerable  
vertebrate populations. Although they often breed far from continents and experience very  
little human contact, albatrosses and large petrels are not beyond the reach of pathogens.

 
##### [Review of pathogens described in ACAP species](https://acap.aq/documents/working-groups/population-and-conservation-status-working-group/population-and-conservation-status-wg-meeting-2/pacswg2-meeting-documents/2235-pacswg2-doc-04-progress-on-updated-review-of-pathogens-described-in-acap-species)