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Article: Durham; Keeping bats safe at home; Officials [Derived headline]
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- The Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Durham
Keeping bats safe at home
face=+Italic; Officials continue to monitor the Durham Bat Mine for any sign of the mysterious disease that is quickly killing off bat colonies in the Northeast.face=-Italic;
face=+Bold; By Amanda Creganface=-Bold;
STAFF WRITER
Biologists know that if they start finding dead bats in Bucks County, it will be too late to save the Durham Bat Mine.
A mysterious, deadly disease that is annihilating bat colonies throughout the Northeast could strike the community of 8,500 bats that hibernate deep in the abandoned iron mine tucked into an Upper Bucks hillside.
Known as the white-nose syndrome, the disease causes a white fungus to form around the nose of infected ...
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