White nose syndrome — Worldwide/Unknown
The US Fish and Wildlife Service says it has found white nose syndrome — a disease killing bats across North America — in a Jackson County cave that is home to the world’s largest documented colony of endangered gray bats.
“Although mass mortality of gray bats has not yet been confirmed from any WNS infected caves in which the species hibernates,” wildlife service Endangered Species Coordinator Paul McKenzie said in a news release Monday [8 Apr 2013], “the documentation of the disease
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