It's basically just the press release, but it looks like there's hope for treatment of white nose syndrome. This is good news after years of increasing apocalyptic coverage.
Possible white nose syndrome cure
- Thread starter jniehof
- Start date
Help Support vftt.org:
TCD
Well-known member
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2004
- Messages
- 2,087
- Reaction score
- 161
That's good news!
But my guess is that the population will recover in any event. White nose has been common in Europe for much longer, and there is a large resistant population. Recent reports in the US indicate that a resistant population is developing here (from a very small % of individuals), and this will be the basis for a population recovery, perhaps over a couple decades.
The press is always apocalyptic (or even apoplexic) about something; "if it bleeds, it leads."
But my guess is that the population will recover in any event. White nose has been common in Europe for much longer, and there is a large resistant population. Recent reports in the US indicate that a resistant population is developing here (from a very small % of individuals), and this will be the basis for a population recovery, perhaps over a couple decades.
The press is always apocalyptic (or even apoplexic) about something; "if it bleeds, it leads."
peakbagger
In Rembrance , July 2024
Unfortunately many of the populations were threatened to begin with. Was this event the one that knocks one of the varieties over the edge?
Chugach001
New member
Non-scientific study here but I live under New England's largest (most populated) bat cave and the number of bats hovering around my yard at dusk has risen from 1 to 2 to 3 over the last couple summers. Others report similar small increases in the area.
Mike P.
Well-known member
certainly good news in light of ever increasing illnesses caused by biting insects and states cutting cost and not spraying. (Which in some aspects is good as what was the poison doing to the ecosystem?...)
Similar threads
