Post by L Roebuck on Jan 6, 2010 15:21:16 GMT -5
Here's just a snippet ffrom the Dec 11th, 2009 update but you can read it all at the link below.
" Preliminary findings from a collaborative study funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Speleological Society, and Symbiology, LLC, indicated that a genetic signature of G. destructans was present in sediments collected in WNS-infested hibernacula. However, the genetic signature has thus far not been detected in environmental samples or on bats collected from outside the known WNS-infested region. Identification of G. destructans genetic material in environmental samples suggests that the fungus is present, and the potential exists for fungus to be transmitted between bat hibernation caves as an unwanted hitch-hiker upon humans, their clothing, or caving gear."
www.fws.gov/northeast/whitenose/PDF/WHB2009-03WNSFinal.pdf
" Preliminary findings from a collaborative study funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Speleological Society, and Symbiology, LLC, indicated that a genetic signature of G. destructans was present in sediments collected in WNS-infested hibernacula. However, the genetic signature has thus far not been detected in environmental samples or on bats collected from outside the known WNS-infested region. Identification of G. destructans genetic material in environmental samples suggests that the fungus is present, and the potential exists for fungus to be transmitted between bat hibernation caves as an unwanted hitch-hiker upon humans, their clothing, or caving gear."
www.fws.gov/northeast/whitenose/PDF/WHB2009-03WNSFinal.pdf