Blehert’s initial experiment (as shown below) demonstrated that the fungus is not only transmissible but also deadly.
Four groups of bats are illustrated from left to right. They were treated in different ways to study the transmission of white-nose syndrome, or WNS. Group 1 is the control group, and a callout reads "34 bats were housed; none developed WNS." Group 2 is the airborne exposure group, and a callout reads "36 bats were housed in a separate aviary but the same laboratory room as WNS-infected bats, so they shared the same air; none developed WNS." Group 3 is the contact exposure group. All but two of the illustrated bats are highlighted in red. The text for this group reads "18 bats were housed in the same aviary as WNS-infected bats; 16 of the 18 developed WNS." Group 4 is the group that had fungus applied directly to wings. All of the illustrated bats are highlighted in red. The text reads "29 bats had the white-nose fungus applied to their wings; all 29 developed WNS."
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