A study conducted by Reuters data analysis found that as more people encroach on bat habitats, the risk of viruses that can jump from bats to humans is expected to rise. Viruses can be transported ...

A mystery illness in Bangladesh, initially thought to be a Nipah infection outbreak, is actually due to another emerging and potentially deadly bat-borne virus, scientists warned in a new study.

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020, ...

A newly recognised bat-borne virus in Bangladesh is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about emerging infections in South Asia. First spotted in patients who looked like classic ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

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A newly discovered virus similar to the virus that causes COVID-19 has been found in a Russian bat and could spread to humans, researchers at Washington State University say. According to WSU, a team ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over into livestock or even humans. Using genetic sequencing, researchers ...