Cheloniidae) has occurred throughout the Caribbean since the mid-1980s. Similar
epizootics in Hawaii and Florida began 5 years earlier. All may be part of a panzootic. The
125 Caribbean cases greatly expand the known range of these epizootics. All the tumors we
examined had spirorchiid (Digenea) eggs. Few turtles we examined with tumors were
emaciated. Additional tumors quickly erupted in some captive turtles, whereas tumors of …