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As of 2012 white-nose syndrome was estimated to have caused 5.7 million to 6.7 million bat deaths in North America. [1] In 2008 bats declined in some caves by more than 90%. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Alan Hicks with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation described the impact in 2008 as "unprecedented" and "the gravest threat to bats ...
Pseudogymnoascus destructans (formerly known as Geomyces destructans) is a psychrophilic (cold-loving) fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fatal disease that has devastated bat populations in parts of the United States and Canada.
Indiana bat populations in the northeastern United States are crashing with the rapid spread of white-nose syndrome, the most devastating wildlife disease in recent history. By the end of 2011, this unprecedented threat had killed 5.7 to 6.7 million bats in the United States since its discovery in 2007 based on photographs taken in 2006. [ 5 ]
Due to white-nose syndrome the northern long-eared bat was listed federally threatened by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act. [15] An oversight field hearing was held before the United States House Committee on Natural Resources in September 2014. [16]
White-nose syndrome first appeared in New York in 2006; it has steadily diffused from eastern New York, though, until recently, remaining east of the Rocky Mountains. In March 2016, white-nose syndrome was detected on a little brown bat in King County, Washington , representing a 1,300 mi (2,100 km) jump from the previous westernmost extent of ...
In recent media reports, mycoplasma pneumonia has been described as “white lung syndrome,” due to the whitening of the lungs shown in x-rays of patients with pneumonia, NBC reports. The term ...
Early estimates of impacts from white-nose syndrome based on bats counted in hibernacula suggested a 12 percent decline in eastern small-footed bat populations. [6] However, changes in capture rates during summer, in West Virginia and New Hampshire, suggested declines from WNS may have been more severe (68–84%).
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