Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus, which causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats.

The new study tested various alternatives to see if something else could have driven the increase: Unemployment or drug overdoses, for example. Nothing else was found to cause it. Dr. Messerlian ...

Staff at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico ... 17 species of bat, including the Brazilian free-tailed bat that has so far avoided white-nose syndrome – a fungal disease that has ...

In the last 20 years, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed over six million bats in the US, causing a ...

A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.

Valley fever, a disease caused by breathing in a type of fungus primarily found in the Southwest ... western states including Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Within the past two decades ...

The fungal disease ... new counties in the eastern U.S., decimating bat populations. A biologist inspects a dead bat in a cave in Vermont last year. (Hasan Jamali/Associated Press) He found ...

The news comes after multiple people contracted the disease at a Kern County music festival in May. Valley fever, which is caused by inhaling fungal spores found in soil, is a potentially deadly ...

The story might not have legs, but it certainly has wings. I try to recap some of the biggest stories that the business desk worked during that last week that were in the Journal and not Outlook. I ...

A deadly disease in bats is spreading in Washington state. Wildlife officials say the fungal disease known as white-nose ...

A new study out of the University of Chicago found that a disease that has been killing bats in the U.S. for nearly two ...

But since 2006, many bat populations have collapsed in counties in North America due to an invasive fungus found in the caves that bats use. A new study in Science uses ... were likely unaffected by ...