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Occurrence and distribution of 4 coral diseases: White Band 
Disease (WBD), Tissue Bleaching (TBL) Shut-Down-Reaction 
(SDR), together also listed as White Syndromes (WS), and 
Black Band Disease (BBD) were investigated through 6 years at 
33 sites along the Saudi Arabian Red Sea of Jeddah (with one 
exception) but may spread to Yanbu and Haql in the future. 
The disease disappears during the cold season, WBD, with 
seasonal fluctuations, occurs all year round at all sites 
investigated (with one exception), and seems to respond to a 
more complicated set of parameters. TBL and SDR were found to 
be short term phenomena of the warm rainy season. Unfavorable 
natural and man-made influences combine in Jeddah's fjord-
like Sharm Abhur, where the reef building coral population 
may face extinction in the near future.