Yellow Band Disease

Yellow-band disease is a bacterial infection that adversely affects coral. This causes light yellow or white spots on the infected coral reef.
It destroys the main energy source of the coral symbiotic photosynthetic algae zooxanthalli which causes the death of the coral.
Rising water temperatures due to climate change, overfishing and pollution can make coral more vulnerable to yellow-band disease.
At present the coral reef on Samsae San island of Thailand is being destroyed due to the infection of this disease.