White nose syndrome — Worldwide/Unknown
North America’s bats are facing their own devastating pandemic. White-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a cold-loving fungus, has killed more than 6 million bats since it was 1st detected in an upstate New York cave in 2006. It threatens some species, such as the northern long-eared bat, with extinction.
The fungus, aptly named _Pseudogymnoascus destructans_, has since spread across the U.S. and Canada — carried both by the routine movements of bats and by hitchhiking on cave-curious
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