John Lovaas wrote:BrianC wrote:Points are correct, but why obliterate the obvious? It may not be an immunity to viral strains, rather an occurrence of missing another fighting agent therefore leaving the bats compromised and susceptible to the fungus.
Brian- I'm not sure what I obliterated. Our immune systems protect us(and bats) from all sort of things, including fungi.
My sincere apologies John! I was actually referring to WNS not reacting to what would be expected from a normal immunity response. Using white blood cells to determine elevated levels created for fighting the host infection. You are right in this sense. Wns doesn't fit into this category as has been seen that the real killer is the fungal excitement during sleep, causing bats to disturb, wake, and find no energy source available so they perish. I was simply trying to say that the truth ,as I see, has no scientific equality to normal immunities as we know them. I guess i just obliterated that entire thought!