A man in his 50s died after contracting the first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New South Wales, ...

An emerging bat-borne viral disease—one that can be fatal to humans—keeps spilling over into horses, and now scientists have documented how climatic changes and habitat loss are driving this ...

Craig 'Zeb' Nolte, from Australia, died from a bat bite with an investigation into his illness having been opened ...

US Risk of bat-borne virus' increases as people encroach on their habitats, according to Reuters study Bats are linked to many deadly disease outbreaks throughout the past half century, including ...

New bat virus has been found in China (Freepik) The Covid-19 pandemic had brought the world to a stand still. The SARS-CoV-2 spread like wildfire in 2019 claiming millions of lives and creating a ...

Since the virus’ identification in 1996, there have been only three cases of infection in humans, all of whom had died “as a result of ABLV infection after being bitten or scratched by bats ...

More recently, scientists found a bat virus collected in 2020 from the same region that is more closely related to the new human coronavirus than RaTG13 in some genes.

Other features of bats, such as the close-quarter colony living of many species and the extremely low body temperatures of hibernation, also may play key roles in bat-virus dynamics. There is much ...

With the virus causing this pandemic – assuming we’re being told the truth – SARS-CoV-2 just cannot be found either in bats in caves or in animals in the wet markets in Wuhan. There are ...

So cute, but not cuddly. The Egyptian tomb bat, Taphozous perforatus, is a likely carrier of the Middle East respiratory syndrome virus, or MERS. Courtesy of Jonathan H. Epstein/EcoHealth Alliance ...