The deadly fungal infection that afflicts bats known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) has now been found on another U.S. bat species , the ninth since the infection was first observed four years ago. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, WNS has now beset 20 percent of North America's bat species.
WNS's latest victim is the southeastern myotis ( Myotis austroriparius ), which lives in the Gulf Coastal Plain and the lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain. An infected myotis bat was found in Virginia's Pocahontas State Park in May. It died soon after it was captured by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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