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Bats Facing Regional Extinction From Rapidly Spreading Disease
August 5, 2010
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A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to the findings of University of California, Santa Cruz, researcher Winifred F. Frick.
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