A BRAIN-SWELLING bat virus that has left people in India with “neurological complications” could spread globally, world health chiefs have warned. Two cases of Nipah, which has no cure ...

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 ...

Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

We know that diseases can occasionally jump from species to species, including from other species to humans, but scientists have found why diseases from bats are more deadly to humans than any other.

Australia has recorded its fourth death of the bat lyssavirus — a very rare and fatal virus that can lay dormant for years. Health authorities yesterday confirmed a man, aged in his 50s, from ...

Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly, bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad viruses that inhabit their bodies. Scientists are researching how this occurs ...