A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New ...

Australia has recorded its fourth death of the bat lyssavirus — a very rare and fatal virus that can lay dormant for years.

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 ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

Australian man dies from rare infection caused by ‘rabies-like’ bat virus - Fatality is only the fourth case ever recorded in ...

The bat virus, referred to as HKU5-CoV-2, uses the same human receptor as SARS-CoV-2, a strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. 4.

Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he has visited over 20 countries trying to prevent the next big pandemic by searching bat caves for new pathogens.

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 ...

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 ...

Rio Bravo virus, for instance, found among some California bats in 1954 and related to the yellow fever virus, was one. Tacaribe virus, carried by both bats and mosquitoes in Trinidad, was another.

Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he has visited over 20 countries trying to prevent the next big pandemic by searching bat caves for new pathogens.

Daszak is a virus hunter. Over the past 10 years, he has visited over 20 countries trying to prevent the next big pandemic by searching bat caves for new pathogens.