Devastating disease found in endangered Tennessee bats
Devastating disease found in endangered Tennessee bats (Reuters) - A disease that has killed millions of hibernating bats in the United States has been detected for the first time in endangered gray bats in Tennessee, a finding that government scientists on Tuesday described as "devastating." White-nose syndrome, a disease named for the fungal residue left on the muzzles of infected bats, does not appear to have killed any gray bats so far. But federal biologists said the latest emergence of the disease constitutes a grave threat to the cave-dwelling winged mammals added to the U.S. endangered species list in 1976. ... //news.yahoo.com/devastating-disease-found-endangered-tennessee-bats-034534007.html
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