The potential introduction of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, into North American bat populations is of interest to wildlife managers due to recent declines of several species. Populations of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) have collapsed due to white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by the introduction and spread of the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). Throughout much of the United States and southern Canada, large colonies of the species routinely established diurnal roosts in anthropogenic structures creating the potential for direct human contact and cross-species disease transmission. Given recent declines and the potential for further disease impacts,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Maryland,
Myotis lucifugus,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New York, All tags...
Rhode Island,
SARS-CoV-2,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Virginia,
Wildlife Disease,
biota,
little brown bat, Fewer tags
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