An impromptu network of federal and state agencies, and teams of veterinary pathologists â?? from the University of Connecticut, Cornell and the University of Wisconsin â?? have been meeting all winter via teleconferences to share information and the results of necropsies of affected bats. But so far they have not been able to determine the cause of the syndrome. The scientists mostly agree, however, that the fungus found on the bodies of infected bats is probably a symptom and not a cause of the condition.
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