Could localized warm areas inside cold caves reduce mortality of hibernating bats affected by white-nose syndrome?

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Environmental conditions associated with bat white‐nose syndrome mortality in the north‐eastern United States (2012, background): “…infection by arousing from hibernation [metabolically warming their bodies to euthermic temperatures (c. 35 C)] and seeking warm conditions and ⁄or insect prey to offset metabolic costs of remaining euthermic (Boyles & Willis 2010; Dobony et al. 2011; Meteyer et al. 2011; Storm & Boyles 2011).”
The Other Functions of Torpor (2012, background): “Although immune function during torpor appears to be suppressed (Prendergast et al. 2002; Boyles and Willis 2010), parasite loads, especially of some gastrointestinal parasites, decrease during hibernation in some animals (Chute 1964).”
A plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) (2015, background): “Roost abandonment, decreased overwinter survival, physiological stress, and mortality of nonvolant young have all been linked to disturbance from humans (Barbour and Davis 1969; Boyles and Willis 2010; Hicks and Novak 2002; Lacki 2000; Mohr 1972; Thomas 1995; Thomas and others 1990; Tuttle 1979, 200”