White nose syndrome -- United States
The fungus that causes the devastating bat disease white nose syndrome [WNS] is now present in 3 new counties in South Carolina: Cherokee, Spartanburg and York.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources recently received confirmation from the National Wildlife Health Center that the fungus was present on bats in these 3 counties. No obvious signs of WNS were seen on any of the 83 tri-colored bats observed in mid-Feb [2018], when fungal growth has had the chance to become
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5701730&promed&0
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