White nose syndrome — China
Bats in northeast China are infected with the fungus that causes white nose syndrome [WNS], a deadly disease that has decimated bat populations in North America since it first appeared in upstate New York in 2006. A team of American and Chinese researchers found the fungus in caves where bats hibernate and found bats infected with the fungus.
Although infected bats had lesions characteristic of the disease and similar to lesions seen in North American bats, the researchers do not know the
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