ApocaDocs: Deadly bat disease spreading fast, scientists warn lawmakers

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Posted Sat Jun 6 2009: from McClatchy Newspapers:


	Deadly bat disease spreading fast, scientists warn lawmakers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1244305322 A mysterious disease that's killing tens of thousands of bats in the Northeast is spreading so fast that it could reach California within five years, biologists and officials of the Agriculture and Interior departments told lawmakers Thursday. Never in my wildest imagination would I have dreamed of anything that could pose this serious a threat to America's bats," Merlin Tuttle , a biologist with Bat Conservation International who's studied the creatures for 50 years, told two House of Representatives subcommittees.... The disease, called "white-nose syndrome," makes bats awaken from hibernation prematurely and leave their caves. Freezing, unable to find insects to eat, they fall from the sky and die.

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