Friday, September 17, 2010

The Fallen

 bats with white nose syndrome

Curtsy of US Fish and Wildlife Service
bats with white nose syndrome



















Disease Ecologists have Identified White Nose Syndrome (WNS) as a newly emerging Infectious disease. The Epi-center has been tracked to Albany N.Y.  WNS can be identified as a white markings on the nose and wings.

Many disease ecologists are drawing parallels between Bd and WNS.  If this is a reasonable comparison, which I believe it is, than what should the primary focus be for WNS. In other words  what have we learned form chitrid that will be useful to managing WNS.

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