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Society of Environment Journalists  reported

“Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada.”

“In the winter of 2006, biologists in New York State got a gruesome surprise. As they surveyed colonies of hibernating bats, they discovered heaps of dead animals on the floors of caves and abandoned mines.

The culprit was a fungus new to science.

Read more  Fungus Devastated North American Bats. New Species Could Be Killer Blow. | SEJ