How disinfecting an old mineshaft saved a colony of little brown bats
Briefly

Joseph Hoyt and his team first showed up to the abandoned mineshaft in Wisconsin during the late summer of 2017, personal protective equipment in hand.Long before Covid-19, the supplies were to protect them from the chlorine dioxide gas they had brought along.Their aim was to use the disinfectant gas to kill the Pseudogymnoascus destructans fungus lining the walls of the mineshaft, which had already killed millions of bats across North America.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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