{"id":7970,"date":"2024-10-29T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:38:59","slug":"deadly-bat-disease-spreads-across-california-raising-wildlife-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/29\/deadly-bat-disease-spreads-across-california-raising-wildlife-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly bat disease spreads across California, raising wildlife concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/deadly-bat-disease-spreads-across-california-raising-wildlife-concerns\">KRCR<\/a> The fungus responsible for white-nose syndrome, a lethal disease that has decimated bat populations across North America, has been detected in several California counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White-nose syndrome, caused by the fungus\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitenosesyndrome.org\/static-page\/the-fungus#:~:text=fungus%2C%20officially%20named-,Pseudogymnoascus%20destructans,-(or%20Pd%20)%20for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pseudogymnoascus destructans<\/a>, is particularly deadly to hibernating bats such as the little brown myotis, Yuma myotis and cave myotis. The disease damages bats&#8217; wing membranes and often leads to premature awakening from hibernation, resulting in dehydration and death due to scarce food and water resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/deadly-bat-disease-spreads-across-california-raising-wildlife-concerns\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"o  vHd wdW  BUvUhVUkZ ZC Bq BCj\">o  vHd wdW  BUvUhVUkZ ZC Bq BCj<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRCR The fungus responsible for white-nose syndrome, a lethal disease that has decimated bat populations across North America, has been detected in several California counties. White-nose syndrome, caused by the fungus\u00a0Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is particularly deadly to hibernating bats such as the little brown myotis, Yuma myotis and cave myotis. The disease damages bats&#8217; wing membranes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungal-infection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7971,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}