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<a href="../index.html">Index of Su Another thought, The holds of ships surely are full of bats. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:27:57 -0300, "Stephen R. Shaw" <srshaw@Dal.Ca> wrote: Hi Dave, > I think it would be on the unwashed soles of the boots not the > clothes or armpits, but yours sounds a plausible idea also, though > the time at sea for a container (2 weeks?) does sounds like a > deterrent, as you say. Another possible problem is that I don't > recall how far inland the originator cave lay inside NY State, but > you could counter that anyway by guessing that the infected bat got > there in several flight stages and roosts over several days. > > All of the options sound extremely unlikely to happen, but that's > evolutionary opportunity for you -- if tried often enough, the > unusual will occasionally happen so that an opportunist can colonize > a new area, in this case with drastic effect on the local species. > Steve > >
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