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  • This whiteness that you call white-nose disease, it is just the mechanism, the means for the bug spirit to realize the vision.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • "It might be called white-nose syndrome, but when you look closely the most significant damage perhaps is to the wings," said Dr Blehert.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The disease, known as white-nose syndrome after the fuzzy residue it leaves on its victims, already has killed more than one million bats since it was first discovered in New York state in 2006.

    Team Identifies Scourge of Farm-Friendly Bats Ryan Tracy 2011

  • As you are about to read, this American hero, when faced with a raging pandemic called white-nose syndrome, took the disease head-on without regard for his personal safety.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • Betty, there is a very serious disease attacking bats right now called white-nose syndrome.

    Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010

  • The deadly disease, called the white-nose fungus, eats through bats' skin and destroys membranes, the Washington Post reported.

    NYDN Rss RHEANA MURRAY 2012

  • Biologists are seeing evidence that humans are behind the spread of Geomyces destructans, a fungus that's linked to the bat-killing disease known as white-nose syndrome .

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Bats are already under threat from white-nose disease, which has decimated populations in the East and threatened an important source of insect control for U.S. farmers.

    Wildlife Slows Wind Power Ryan Tracy 2011

  • Congress also ought to provide $10 million for white-nose research.

    What's Killing Millions Of American Bats? Joanna Zelman 2011

  • Most biologists now agree that white-nose syndrome is caused by a fungus previously unknown to science, and that it was likely brought to North America by people who visited European caves, then came to New York.

    What's Killing Millions Of American Bats? Joanna Zelman 2011

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