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Deadly snake fungal disease doesn’t discriminate

December 28, 2017

Snake fungal disease infects snake species regardless of their ancestry, physical characteristics or habitats, according to new research. “It was totally randomly dispersed,” said Frank Burbrink, curator of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural …

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Seeking the origin of white-nose syndrome

December 14, 2017

While researchers still struggle to find precisely where the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in North American bats originated, scientists recently found a few clues. In a new study published in mBio, researchers were able …

Charlie Booher

Frog species hosts but shows no signs of fungal disease

December 7, 2017

Researchers have documented another frog species that carries the deadly chytrid fungal disease but shows no symptoms, and they believe others may exist around the world, contributing to global amphibian die-offs without being affected themselves. …

Dana Kobilinsky

Snake fungal disease confirmed in Europe for first time

July 18, 2017

A team of researchers has documented the first detection of the fungus responsible for snake fungal disease in wild snakes in Europe. They wrote about their findings in a study published in June in Scientific …

Dana Kobilinsky

Are little brown bats developing resistance to white-nose syndrome?

December 20, 2016

In New York — the first state where the deadly white-nose syndrome was detected in 2006 — biologists recently made a surprising observation: some small populations of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) are persisting. …

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Country-wide surveillance efforts help prevent salamander fungus

June 3, 2016

For more than a decade, Evan Grant has traveled to vernal pools, streams and forests in different national parks and wildlife refuges in the northeastern United States to sample amphibians. Grant — a researcher with …

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White-nose syndrome jumps to western US

April 1, 2016

A little brown bat in North Bend, Washington, has been confirmed to have white-nose syndrome (WNS), making it the farthest western case of the deadly bat disease that’s killed more than six million bats since …

Dana Kobilinsky

Researchers Confirm Snake Fungal Disease Culprit

November 18, 2015

Researchers have identified the fungus that’s causing snake fungal disease, an emerging disease in the eastern and midwestern United States that causes lesions on a number of snake species. While past research has confirmed the …

Conservation News

White-Nose Syndrome Discovered in China

November 4, 2015

For the first time, researchers have found that white-nose syndrome — a deadly disease that’s wiped out numerous bat populations — isn’t confined to Europe and North America; it’s also in China. “Up until this …

Conservation News

Snake Fungal Disease Strikes Again in Georgia

October 14, 2015

Snake fungal disease, a deadly and mysterious fungal infection fatal to snakes, has now been confirmed in a third free-ranging snake in Georgia. Last week, the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, a state-federal cooperative structure …

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