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Article: State keeps eye out for illness menacing bats

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Whatever is killing and infecting hundreds of thousands of bats in New York and Vermont isn't yet in Pennsylvania.

But endangered mammal specialist Greg Turner is surveying caves and mines across the state just to make sure. West Virginia and Ohio wildlife biologists are doing the same.

Pennsylvania has more than 5,000 mines and more than 1,000 caves that could support hibernating bats, Turner said.

"So far, Pennsylvania appears to be clean," said Turner, a Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife biologist who examines groups of hibernating bats.

Infected bats exhibit a white fungus, named fusarium, around

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