Officials Ask UK Citizens to Wash Over Tree Fungus

Officials in the UK are asking citizens to make sure they wash their dogs, boots, and children to save ash trees.

Over one hundred thousand ash trees in the UK have fallen victim to a fungus, which is killing them off.

The theory is that by washing, after going into woodland areas, the fungus will not be spread.

Chalara Fraxinea, the fungus in question, was first discovered in the UK on March 7.

It was brought over by infected wood from the Netherlands, and since has been declared a national emergency.

Concern, over the spread of the fungus, is such that there's even an app to map locations where it has spread to.

The same fungus has killed over ninety percent of the ash population in Denmark.