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Posted Thu Feb 21 2008: from The Boston Globe:
Bat sickness reaches mines in Western Massachusetts http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1203637597
"A mysterious and deadly sickness that has killed off thousands of bats in New York has now been discovered in two Western Massachusetts mines. Researchers say they expect to find more affected wintering bat populations as they lead expeditions into dark caves and mines in the Northeast over coming weeks. They predict that hundreds of thousands of the furry creatures will be wiped out before the end of winter. The illness ... does not appear to pose any risk to people...
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What part of interconnectedness does this writer and these researchers not understand. The loss of any species poses a "risk" to all other species.

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