Texas receives grant to prevent local bats from disease-causing fungus

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Watching the bats take flight at the Congress Avenue Bridge is a staple attraction to those who live and visit Austin. Just take a walk in the area on a warm summer evening, and you’ve likely seen them.
But a disease-causing fungus is slowly killing off millions of bats in the eastern United States, threatening the number of bats we could see in the future. The disease is known as “white-nose syndrome,” for the powdery white fungus that grows on their nose