FLICKR, US FISH AND WILDLIFE HEADQUARTERS
In 2006, researchers in New York state documented a strange phenomenon: bats, all with white noses, were dropping dead. In the intervening 5 years, scientists have worked feverishly to figure out what was killing the bats, and identified a single fungus as the cause, but they have yet to find a treatment for the pathogen.
And the news seems to only get worse. Yesterday (January 18), the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that, according to their recent figures, at least 5.7 million to 6.7 million bats have been killed by white nose syndrome so far in North America.
“This startling new information illustrates the severity of the threat that white-nose syndrome poses for bats, as well as the scope of the problem facing our ...
