A Breakthrough In Helping Bats With White-Nose Syndrome

KUAF | By Karen Tricot Steward

Published June 14, 2015 at 9:21 AM CDT

For the first time, scientists have treated and cured bats infected with White-Nose Syndrome. That's the devastating infection that is decimating bat colonies in the U.S. and Canada, including in Arkansas. Karen Tricot Steward of our content partner KUAR in Little Rock has more.

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