White-Nose Syndrome

The Missouri Department of Conservation is preparing to survey the bat population in the northern half of the state.Tony Elliott is a resource scientist…

Updated at 4:10 p.m. to include quotes from IDNR and 4:23 p.m. to include map.Officials in Illinois have found the first cases of a devastating bat…

Biologists are tracking the Indiana bat at their summer locations through sites in Missouri and Illinois, hoping to gather information that will help…

The disease has killed more than 5.5 million bats in the eastern United States and Canada and is making its way west. White-nose syndrome has been diagnosed in three Missouri bats — the first confirmed cases west of the Mississippi — and scientists say it won't stop there.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 3, 2012 - The Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed April 2 that White-Nose Syndrome…

Updated at 3:00 p.m. to clarify and expand description of white-nose syndrome.A disease that has killed millions of bats across the eastern U.S. has been…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: July 15, 2008 - Bats are dying. A plague has killed tens of thousands of them in the Northeastern…