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Emerging disease may wipe out common bat in the Northeast

Region could lose little brown myotis within decades

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

A novel disease could kill off the Northeastern population of the little brown myotis bat, a once-common fixture of summer nights, in as little as 16 years.

White fuzz on the nose of a little brown myotis bat indicates white-nose syndrome, which a new analysis shows might essentially wipe out the species in the Northeast within several decades.