Sentences with phrase «disease by bats»

The horses were infected with the disease by bats, which harbour the Hendra virus.

Not exact matches

(A fine move by chiropterologists — bat scientists — to involve the public in saving animals endangered by white - nose disease.)

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

Cartan - Hansen described the importance of the research in determining whether the outbreak of white nose syndrome had reached southwestern Idaho (there was no evidence of it in the power plant building), and she noted that humans can spread the disease by transporting the fungus on their shoes and clothing from caves harboring infected bats.

As a former bat ecologist I thought your article on diseases carried by bats (8 February, p 44) unnecessarily demonised...

After hibernating in refrigeratorlike chambers containing the compound, which is produced by a soil bacterium (a strain of Rhodococcus rhodochrous), diseased little brown and northern long - eared bats emerged healthy.

Four bat species have been hit especially hard by the disease, with some regional populations declining by more than 90 percent.

It thrives at low temperatures — a trait that fit with Hicks's observation that only hibernating bats seemed to be affected by the disease, which came to be known as white - nose syndrome.

A sick bat caught by hikers not far from Seattle has now been confirmed to have the first case west of the Rockies of the deadly bat disease white - nose syndrome.

Yet researchers have also found carcasses of cave - hibernating bats, including the little brown bat and the northern long - eared myotis — two species that have been devastated by the fungal disease white nose syndrome and that are now being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

A sick bat caught by hikers not far from Seattle on March 11 has now been confirmed as the first case west of the Rockies of the deadly bat disease white - nose syndrome.

White - nose syndrome (WNS) is a rapidly emerging fatal disease amongst North American bats, caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd).

By using bats as a model system Daniel G. Streicker shows how infectious diseases can be transmitted between species.

The horses had picked up the disease while feeding beneath trees inhabited by fruit bats, which are Hendra's natural host species.

A fatal disease that killed over 24, 000 pigs in China last year was caused by a virus that originally came from bats, according to a genetic study pinpointing the virus» origins.

By reducing virulence of the fungus, we may help facilitate natural evolution of resistance in bats to this disease.

Culling of bats in areas where the disease is present is one of several options that have been considered by state and federal agencies as a way to control the disease.

This is a fatal disease that can be passed by wildlife including bats.

The population has declined dramatically due to a disease called «White Nose Syndrome,» a fungus that humans help spread by disturbing bat hibernation sites.