Now Rocke wants to use bats’ tendency to congregate — the reason white-nose syndrome is spreading — to fight the disease. Her team is considering putting their vaccine in a spray or paste ...

The mortality rate of bats with white-nose syndrome can reach as high as 90 to 100 percent, depending on the colony. Canada listed little brown bats as endangered in 2014 due to drastic declines ...

Mexican long-nosed bats were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1988, but according to Bat Conservation International, the population has decreased by 50% in recent decades.

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

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White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has decimated bat populations in the eastern U.S. and Canada, has been detected in Colorado for the first time. A female Yuma bat was found on the ground ...

White nose syndrome is caused by a particular fungus that arrived from Europe, where bats had developed immunity to it. When a bat carries it to a hibernaculum—a secluded spot, like a cave ...

White nose syndrome (WNS) was discovered – the first time confirmed in the state – via samples taken from two live bats and two found dead in caves in Lincoln and De Baca counties, which are ...

Wildlife officers find white nose fungus on bats in Colorado 02:26. North America's bats have been fighting a battle with a fungus for years leaving 90% of bats in some areas dead but until just ...

White-nose syndrome isn’t the only threat to bats in Texas. Across the state, wind turbines kill about 200,000 bats each year — and as more are installed, ... they’re just so freaking cool. ...

White-nose syndrome is killing bats, but not at Michigan’s Tippy Dam. Now researchers are mimicking the dam’s conditions inside an old mine in the U.P.

Bacteria found naturally on some bats may prove useful in controlling the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome, which has devastated bat populations throughout eastern North America and ...