Bat Disease Treatment

From ANG newspapers, September 20, 2010:

Bat disease hope

New treatments are being proposed to help combat a fatal bat disease that has decimated the flying mammals’ population in the eastern United States. The so-called white-nose syndrome is a fungal infection that emerged in 2006. Scientists don’t know exactly how it has wiped out 97 percent of the bat population in some areas, but researchers think they can fight it. Addressing a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Jeremy Coleman, head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s response to the problem, says that the use of antifungal drugs might be successful in treating infected bats, and antiseptics could be used to decontaminate bat caves. But Coleman warns that further study is necessary to make sure the treatments don’t harm other wildlife or cause their own set of problems.

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