While humans aren’t affected by the disease, they can be carriers and move the disease from cave to cave during recreational exploration.
Glad the Herald finished off the science necessary to know that that's possible. It gets worse...
He wishes explorers would sanitize their equipment before they enter new caves because white fungus spores are carried on boots and clothing, but there’s little possibility of enforcing such rules.
This type of human contamination is likely the reason the disease struck four provinces and 16 U.S. states.
Either the Herald is being fed piss poor information or they're simply making things up. I'm curious if wildlife biologist Dave Hobson is comfortable having his name attached to an article that makes such gross assumptions with so little scientific merit. No mention is made of the primary mode of transmission or how it continues its march regardless of closures.