Finding clues to disease menacing LI bats
Quick ReadMany of the recent samples come from littler brown bats, which are the most common type on Long Island.
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | Julie Feinstein, manager of the American Museum of Natural History’s frozen tissue collection, handles bat tissue samples in the museum's cryogenic storage facility. The samples are used to study white nose syndrome, which threatens to wipe out much of the LI and Northeast bat population. (Nov. 23, 2010)
In caves upstate and laboratories across North America, researchers are racing to unlock the secrets behind white nose syndrome, which threatens to wipe out much of Long Island's bat population.
The devastating new disease has killed off more than a million bats in the Northeast since 2006. A critical component of those efforts sits in cold storage in a basement lab at the American Museum...
